A new computerised railway reservation counter became operational at General Post Office (GPO) at TT Nagar from Wednesday.
The counter will remain open from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm except holidays of the GPO. The facility will provide an additional option for the city people who have to visit railway stations for reservation.
In another addition of facilities for railway passengers, online booking of retiring room is expected to be done for five stations under Bhopal division Sanchi, Bina, Guna, Vidisha and Ashok Nagar from September 12, 2014. At present the facility of online booking of retiring room is available for Bhopal, Itarsi and Habibganj railway stations.
These stations are connected through networking. The passengers could avail the facility from the stations having online retiring room booking facility. The reservation of retiring room could be done in advance. For booking the retiring room, passengers must have a confirm reservation ticket.
At the time of retiring room booking, the passengers will have to pay the charges and after making the payment the passenger would be given the reservation ticket of retiring room. With this new initiative a passenger would be able to book a retiring room for 12 hours or 24 hours according to the requirement. The passenger will have to provide train ticket for booking retiring room and a valid identity proof for booking a retiring room.
Meanwhile Ministry of Railways has extended the trial halt of trains at several stations across the country which was earlier scheduled till September 30,214. The West Central Railways would also continue to maintain the halts at railway stations till the next orders are issued regarding the trial halts.
In the upcoming festive season special trains would be running to cater the passengers traveling on the occasion on Diwali and Durga Pooja by railway administration.
Jaipur-Madurai weekly summer special train 09723 and 09724. The special train would start running from Jaipur on September 20,2014 to November 15,2014 and from Madurai from October 23,2014 to November 18,2014.