At your service: list of new trains in Budget

To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, Railways propose to run a special train Sanskriti Express across the country.

Matribhoomi Trains:

Delhi-Panipat, Barasat–Sealdah, Krishnanagar-Sealdah, Falaknuma–Lingampalli, Thane-Vashi, Panvel–Nerul-Thane

Karmabhoomi Trains:

Darbhanga-Mumbai Express (Weekly), Guwahati-Mumbai(Weekly) via Howrah-Tatanagar-Jharsuguda-Bilaspur-Nagpur New Jalpaiguri – Amritsar (Weekly) via Katihar-Sitapur

Janmabhoomi Trains:

Ahmedabad and Udhampur every week linking Jodhpur, Phalodi, Lalgarh, Biradhwal, Pilibanga, Mahajan, Suratgarh, Hanumangarh, Bhatinda, Faridkot, Firozpur, Jalandher, Chakki bank, Samba, Bari Brahman, Jammu-Tawi and Udhampur.

Bharat Tirth Trains:

Howrah-Gaya-Agra- Mathura- Vrindavan -New Delhi-Haridwar- Varanasi-Howrah,

Howrah-Chennai- Puducherry- Madurai – Rameshwaram-Kanyakumari- Bangalore – Mysore – Chennai-Howrah

Howrah- Vizag- Hyderabad- Araku- Howrah

Howrah – Varanasi- Jammu Tawi- Amritsar- Haridwar- Mathura- Vrindavan- Allahabad- Howrah

Howrah-Ajmer- Udaipur- Jodhpur- Bikaner- Jaipur- Howrah

Mumbai- Pune- Tirupati- Kancheepuram- Rameshwaram- Madurai- Kanyakumari-Pune- Mumbai

Pune-Jaipur-Nathdwara-Ranakpur-Jaipur-Mathura-Agra-Haridwar- Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Pune

Pune-Ratnagiri-Goa-Bangalore-Mysore-Tirupati-Pune

Ahmedabad-Puri-Kolkata-Gangasagar-Varanasi-Allahabad-Indore- Omkareshwar-Ujjain-Ahmedabad

Bhopal-Dwarka-Somnath-Udaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur-Jaipur-Mathura- Vrindavan -Amritsar-Jammu Tawi-Bhopal

Bhopal-Tirupati-Kanchipuram-Rameshwaram-Madurai-Kanyakumari- Trivandrum-Cochin-Bhopal

Madurai-Chennai-Kopargaon-Mantralayam-Chennai-Madurai

Madurai-Erode-Pune-Ujjain-Veraval-Nasik-Hyderabad-Chennai-Madurai

Madurai-Chennai-Jaipur-Delhi-Mathura -Vrindavan -Allahabad- Varanasi-Gaya-Chennai-Madurai

Madurai-Varanasi-Gaya-Patna Sahib-Allahabad-Haridwar-Chandigarh- Kurukshetra-Amritsar-Delhi-Madurai

Madurai-Mysore-Goa-Mumbai-Aurangabad-Hyderabad-Madurai

Duronto Services:

Yeswantpur (Bangalore) -Delhi (AC) (Weekly), Mumbai-Secunderabad AC (Bi-weekly), Pune –Howrah AC (Bi- weekly), Mumbai-Ernakulam AC (Bi-weekly), Indore- Mumbai AC (Bi-weekly), Jaipur-Mumbai AC (Bi-weekly),

To run in the day time:

Chandigarh-Amritsar, Chennai–Coimbatore, Puri-Howrah, Howrah-Digha.

In addition to the above, in view of the increasing demand of the passengers, the following long distance new services are being proposed:

Sultanpur-Mumbai Express (via Nihalgarh, Weekly), Sultanpur-Ajmer Express (via Nihalgarh, Weekly), Asansol-Digha Express (Weekly), Howrah-Katpadi(Vellore)-Puducherry Express via Bhubaneswar (Weekly), Kishanganj-Ajmer Express (Weekly), Kolkata-Ajmer Express via Singrauli-Katni-Bhopal-Nagda-Ratlam (Weekly), Kolkata- Anandpur Sahib- Nangaldam Express (Weekly), Una-Haridwar Link Express (Tri-weekly), Siuri-Prantik-Howrah Express (Daily), Haldia - Chennai Express (Weekly), Hyderabad-Ajmer Express (Bi-weekly), Rajgir-Howrah via Tilaiya-Koderma (Tri-weekly), Mumbai-Shirdi Intercity Express (Tri-weekly), Haridwar- Mumbai CST AC Express (Bi-weekly), Valsad-Haridwar Express (Weekly), Ajmer –Indore Link Express (Daily), Nagercoil-Bangalore Express (Weekly) via Madurai-Hosur, Kanpur - Chitrakoot Express (Daily), New Jalpaiguri - Chennai Express (Weekly), Delhi Sarai Rohilla - Sri Ganganagar Express (Tri-weekly) via Bhatinda, Mangalore -Tiruchchirapalli Express (Weekly), Bhubaneswar-Pune Express (Weekly), Habibganj-Jabalpur Intercity Express (Daily), Calicut-Thiruvananthpuram Janshatabdi Express (5 days a Week), Pune - Ernakulam Superfast (Bi-weekly) via Panvel, Coimbatore-Tirupati Intercity Express via Salem (Tri-weekly), Shimoga-Mysore Intercity Express (Daily), Bangalore-Tirupati Intercity Express via Bangarapet (Tri-weekly), Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj Terminus (Kolhapur) - Solapur Express (Daily), Jaipur-Pune Express (Weekly), Ranchi-Jaynagar Express (Tri-weekly), Madurai-Tirupati Express (Bi-weekly), Tirupati -Secunderabad Express (Bi-weekly) via Pakalle - Madanpalle Road, Sambalpur-Howrah Express (Weekly), Ahmedabad-Agra Express (Tri-weekly), Gonda- Manduadih (Varanasi) Intercity (Daily).

Running of independent trains between Bangalore-Hubli and Bangalore-Nanded by delinking of 6591/6592 Bangalore-Hubli Hampi Express from 6593/6594 Bangalore-Nanded Express.

Running of independent trains between Hyderabad-Tirupati(Daily), Hyderbad-Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj Terminus (Bi-weekly) and Tirupati- Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj Terminus (Daily) by delinking 7416/7429/7430 Haripriya and Rayalseema Express, Secunderabad-Manuguru Express (Tri-weekly), Alipurduar – Lumding Intercity Express (Daily), Guwahati - Mariani Intercity Express (Daily), Gandhidham - Jodhpur Express via Bhildi (Tri-weekly), Rajkot – Porbander Express (via Jetalsar) (Tri-weekly), Kolkata – Darbhanga Express (Bi- weekly), Howrah – Berhampur Express (Tri- weekly), Baripada – Shalimar Intercity Express (Tri – weekly), Kharagpur – Purulia Intercity Express (Tri- weekly), Gwalior – Chhindwara Express (Bi- weekly), Rampurhat – Sealdah Intercity Express (Tri- weekly), Howrah – Shirdi Express (Weekly), Puri – Valsad Express (Weekly) via Katni- Bhopal – Vadodara, Puri-Digha Express (Weekly).

Gandhidham–Howrah Express will be started by the 10th of March, 2010.

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Passenger trains:

A large volume of Rail travel consists of short distance traffic. This traffic which utilizes conventional passenger trains, MEMUs and DEMUs has been showing encouraging growth and to address to this segment of traffic, the following passenger trains are proposed to be introduced during the year 2010-11:

Chittaranjan-Kolkata Passenger, Sealdah-Krishnanagar Passenger, Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri Passenger, Balaghat-Katangi Passenger, Tatanagar-Hatia Passenger via Chandil-Purulia-Muri, Miraj-Parli Passenger, Miraj-Pandharpur Passenger, Jhansi-Banda Passenger, New Jalpaiguri-Dinahat-Bamanhat Passenger, Nilambur Road-Shoranur Passenger, Tiruchendur-Tirunelveli Passenger, Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur Passenger, Bhubaneswar-Khurda Road Passenger, Bangalore-Neelamangala Passenger, Bagalkot – Gadag Passenger, Kozhikode- Kannur Passenger, Dharmanagar-Manu Passenger, Patna – Sasaram via Ara Passenger (to be extended to Bhabua Road upon development of terminal facilities), Coimbatore-Pollachi Passenger(after gauge conversion), Aunrihar -Jaunpur Passenger (after gauge conversion), Bareilly-Lalkuan Passenger (after gauge conversion), Katihar-Teznarayanpur Passenger (after gauge conversion), Fakiragram-Dhubri Passenger (after gauge conversion), Rewari-Degana Passenger via Ratangarh (after gauge conversion), Bhildi-Samdari Passenger(after gauge conversion), Naupada-Gunupur Passenger (after gauge conversion), Hospet- Harihar Passenger (after gauge conversion), Tirupati-Madanpalle Road - Kurabakota Passenger (after gauge conversion).

MEMUs:

Tirupati-Nellore-Chennai, Salem-Katpadi, Vijaywada-Guntur-Tenali, Coimbatore-Erode, Howrah-Midnapur, Dhanbad- Jhargram via Purulia, Ghatsila-Howrah, Ernakulam-Kollam, Restoration of Andal-Jasidih via Jamuria-Barbani.

DEMU Service:

Kacheguda-Mahboobnagar, Kacheguda-Miryalguda, Qazigund-Baramulla, Krishnanagar-Farakka, Malda Town-Coochbehar, Malda Town-Balurghat, Bakhtiyarpur-Gaya, Hoshiarpur - Amritsar

Increase in frequency of trains:

2245/2246 Howrah-Yesvantpur Duronto Express from weekly to four days, 3149/3150 Sealdah-Alipurduar Kanchen Kanya Express from four days to daily, 2377/2378 Sealdah-New Jalpaiguri Padatik Express from three days to six days, 2295/2296 Patna-Bangalore Sanghamitra Express from six days to daily, 2251/2252 Korba-Yesvantpur Express from weekly to two days, 6605/6606 Mangalore-Kochuveli Ernad Express from three days to daily, 2933/2934 Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central Express from six days to daily, 2215/2216 Bandra Terminus-Delhi Sarai Rohilla from three days to four days, 2807/2808 Visakhapatnam-Nizamuddin Samata Express from three days to five days, 4705/4706 Delhi Sarai Rohilla- Sadulpur Express from three days to six days, 2981/2982 Udaipur City- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Chetak Express from three days to four days, 2447/2448 Manikpur–Hazrat Nizammudin Uttar Pradesh Sampark Kranti Express from three days to daily.

Extension of trains:

7001/7002 Secunderabad-Manmad Express to Shirdi (Bi-weekly), 7205/7206 Kakinada-Manmad Express to Shirdi (Weekly), 1405/1406 Kakinada-Manmad Express to Shirdi (Bi-weekly), 7207/7208 Vijaywada-Manmad Express to Shirdi (Weekly), 6341/6342 Thiruvanthapuram-Ernakulam Express to Guruvayur (Daily), 7639/7640 Kacheguda-Nanded Express to Akola (Daily), 2187/2188 Mumbai CST-Jabalpur Express to Allahabad (Bi-weekly), 2235/2236 New Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani Express to Dibrugarh, 2777/2778 Yesvantpur-Kochuveli Express to Hubli (weekly), 2831/2832 Bhubaneswer-Hatia Express to Dhanbad (Tri-weekly), 8425/8426 Puri–Raipur Express to Durg, 8447/8448 Bhubaneswar-Koraput Express to Jagdalpur, 209/210 Puri-Dhenkanal Passenger to Talcher Road (Daily), 1629 Sangali-Miraj to Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj Terminus (Kolhapur), 1610 Miraj-Pune to Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj Terminus (Kolhapur) (Daily), 1551/1552 Pune-Daund to Baramati (Daily), 531A/532A Parli-Nizamabad Passenger to Pandharpur, 623/624 Mangalore-Kannur Passenger to Kozhikode, 353/354 Dharwar-Gadag Passenger to Solapur, 1704 Chirmiri-Damoh Passenger to Sagour, 1703A Damoh-Katni Passenger to Sagour.