Central Railway in addition to its regular trains, is running Summer Special Trains to facilitate passengers. CR has planned 920 Summer Special Trains in 2024, which is expected to ferry about 10.89 lakh passengers to their destinations with an occupancy of 111.10 %. It has already run 822 summer specials as on 18.6.2024.
These special trains which includes Fully air-conditioned specials, Unreserved specials and other trains with a combination of AC, Sleeper and General second class coaches have been scheduled to various popular destinations like Danapur, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Banaras, Prayagraj, Samastipur, Karim Nagar, Mau, Agartala, Asansol, Thivim, Kochuveli and other places from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus , Dadar, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Panvel, Nagpur, Pune and Solapur.
Of the 920 summer specials planned, 353 train services are scheduled for Uttar Pradesh, followed by 205 services for Bihar, 84 services for Goa, 36 services to the North East, 74 services within Maharashtra and 168 services to destinations in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Orissa and Rajasthan. These additional trains have been meticulously planned to connect key destinations across the country, catering to the summer travel rush from the above states.
Planning and running of additional trains is a continuous process for which inputs are taken from all the communication channels 24x 7 like media reports, Social media platforms, Railway Integrated helpline number 139, apart from details of waitlist passengers in PRS system, to assess demand of trains on a particular route. Based on this requirement, number of trains and number of trips are augmented.
In addition Central Railway has been actively taking various measures to ensure a comfortable journey to its passengers during the summer season.
These include:
• Effective crowd management with a team of Ticket Checking Staff and RPF Personnel at major stations like CSMT, Dadar, LTT, Thane, Kalyan, Panvel, Pune, Solapur, Nashik Road, Jalgaon, Bhusaval, Nagpur etc.
• Provision of Help desks at several stations for proper guidance of passengers.
• Repeated announcements regarding the summer special trains for the benefit of passengers.
• Wide publicity of Summer special trains by sharing of information to the media and public through press releases and on social media platforms.
Central Railway is committed to providing safe, comfortable, and convenient travel experiences to all its esteemed passengers.