(Kajal Singh intern journalist): All 30 trains will be started in different phases. On May 12, only eight trains will run. The next day on May 13, nine more trains will start.
New Delhi: Partial rail service is starting from May 12 amid lockdown across the country. These trains will go from 15 different parts of the country towards the capital Delhi and 15 trains will run from Delhi to different parts of the country. For the journey, booking will start on the IRCTC website from 4 pm today.
These special trains will run between New Delhi Railway Station and Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad, Jammu-Tawi. All trains except some will run daily
Starting May 12
• Howrah (1650) – New Delhi (1000),
• Rajendra Nagar (1900) – New Delhi (0740)
• New Delhi (1610) – Dibrugarh (0700)
• New Delhi (2040) – Jammu Tawi (0545)
• Bengaluru (2000) – New Delhi (0555)
• New Delhi (1545) – Bilaspur (1200) T, S
• Mumbai Central (1700) – New Delhi (0835)
• Ahmedabad (1740) – New Delhi (0730)
Starting May 13
• New Delhi (1655) – Howrah (0955)
• New Delhi (1715) – Rajendra Nagar (0530)
• Jammu Tawi (1940) – New Delhi (0500)
• New Delhi (1055) – Thiruvananthapuram (0525) T, W, Su
• New Delhi (1555) – Chennai Central (2040) W, F
• New Delhi (1600) – Ranchi (1030) W, S
• New Delhi (1625) – Mumbai Central (0815)
• New Delhi (1955) – Ahmedabad (0940)
• Bhubaneswar (0930) – New Delhi (1045)
Trains starting 14 May
Dibrugarh (2035) – New Delhi (1015)
New Delhi (2045) – Bengaluru (0640)
Bilaspur (1400) – New Delhi (1055) M, Th
Ranchi (1710) – New Delhi (1055) Th, Su
New Delhi (1705) – Bhubaneswar (1725)
Trains starting May 15
• Thiruvananthapuram (1915) – New Delhi (1240) T, TH, F
• Chennai Central (0605) – New Delhi (1025) F, Su
• New Delhi (1055) – Madgaon (1250) F, S
Trains starting 18 May
• Agartala (1830) – New Delhi (1120) M
Starting May 17
• Madgaon (1000) – New Delhi (1240) M, Su
• New Delhi (1555) – Secunderabad (1400) Su
Trains starting May 20
• New Delhi (1950) – Agartala (1330) W
• Secunderabad (1245) – New Delhi (1040) W
Unlike the labor trains, booking of all 72 seats will be done in the coaches of these trains and there is no possibility of any discount in their fares. A maximum of 54 passengers are allowed to travel in one compartment in labor special trains.