Chennai: For the first time, Southern Railway has brought out a proper Time Table of Summer Specials in a soft version. The timetable has all sector wise summer specials proposed during April – June 2018, with detailed timings. The link for the soft copy of the timetable is given hereunder in the form of a QR Code. The QR can be scanned using a Mobile Scanner that’ll open a link containing the soft copy of the above timetable (this can be opened in the same manner in which the other QR…
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Indian Railway goes digital to motivate employees to share good work
New Delhi: Continuing on its transformation journey, Indian Railways has developed an Online Portal called “Rail Good Work Portal” to enable the employees to freely share the good work being done by them and encourage easy and fast replication of these good work by other units.
Read MoreRailways to dispense with pasting of reservation charts on coaches
Trivandrum: Based on encouraging results obtained from trials conducted in selected stations, Railways are going ahead with their green initiative of dispensing with pasting of charts on coaches at all A1, A and B Class Stations. This will be on trial basis for a period of six months from March 1st. For Southern Railway alone, this will result in savings of more than 28 tonnes of Charting paper or Rs.1,70,000/- every year, pointing to a major effort in becoming more eco-friendly. Railways’ other efforts in this direction include encouraging ‘E’ ticketing…
Read MoreErnakulum South railway station becomes fully Divyang friendly
Kochi: Ernakulam South railway station will provide hassle-free access to services at the railway station to Divyang passengers. By implementing ‘Divyangjan Project’ Careful and meticulous planning had converted the station into a Fully Divyang Friendly Railway Station with CSR participation of Mathrubhumi group.
Read MoreTrack maintenance work in Trivandrum Division to affect punctuality of trains
Trivandrum: A pan India safety drive has been launched by the Railway Board to meet the new higher standards of safety and to improve asset reliability. Trivandrum division has taken up the drive on a mission mode to ensure safety in train operation. As a part of this 180 kms of track comprising of rails and sleepers are targeted to be replaced in the current financial year. There are other maintenance works of various assets also carried out simultaneously. 70% of the proposed work is concentrated in Shoranur – Ernakulam and Kayamkulam…
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