With a view to providing comfortable journey to the commuters during the winter rush, the East Coast Railways (ECoR) has decided to extend the services of Bhubaneswar-New Delhi-Bhubaneswar and Bhubaneswar-Yesvantpur-Bhubaneswar weekly special trains by one month.
Accordingly, Bhubaneswar-New Delhi special train leaving Bhubaneswar on every Sunday will be continued up to February 23. In the return direction, the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar weekly special leaving New Delhi on every Monday will run up to February 24. The trains will have stoppages at Cuttack, Bhadrak, Baleswar, Hijli, Bankura, Adra, Gomo, Gaya, Mughal Sarai, Allahabad and Kanpur.
Similarly, Bhubaneswar-Yesvantpur special train leaving Bhubaneswar on every Wednesday will run up to February 26. In the return direction, Yesvantpur-Bhubaneswar weekly special leaving Yesvantpur on every Thursday will run up to February 27.
The trains will have stoppages at Khurda Road, Balugaon, Brahmapur, Palasa, Srikakulam Road, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, Ongole, Nellore, Gudur, Katpadi, Jolarpetai and Krishnarajapuram.
The ECoR has also decided to augment one additional Ac-3 tier coach each permanently in Howrah-Satya Sai Prashanti Nilayam-Howrah Express, Santragachhi-Tirupati-Santragachhi Express, Howrah-Pondichery-Howrah Express, Howrah-Mysore-Howrah Express and Shalimar-Secunderabad-Shalimar Express.