To avoid additional rush and provide comfortable journey to passengers during the summer, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run three additional pairs of trains towards Kolkata from Puri and Bhubaneswar.
The three new summer special trains are Puri-Santragachhi Special Train, Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Special Train and Bhubaneswar-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Special Train.
The Puri-Santragachhi Special train will leave Puri at 9.25pm on every Friday and reach at Santragachhi at 6.45am on the next days between May 6 and June 24. In the return direction, the train will leave Santragachhi at 7pm on every Saturday and arrive at Puri at 4am on the following days between May 7 and June 25.
The Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Special train will leave Puri at 5.45am on every Wednesday and reach Howrah at 1.40pm on the same day between May 11 and June 1. In the return direction, it will leave Howrah at 2.25pm on every Wednesday and arrive at Puri at 10pm on the same day during the period.
Similarly, the Bhubaneswar-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Special train will leave Bhubaneswar at 6am on every Sunday and reach Howrah at 12.40pm on the same day between May 8 and May 29. In the return direction, the train will leave Howrah at 1.25pm on every Sunday and arrive at Bhubaneswar at 8.10pm on the same day during the period.
Notably, the ECoR is running nine pairs of weekly and bi-weekly summer special trains for different destinations across the country from its jurisdiction by creating a number of additional berths. Besides, a number of long distance summer special trains are also running through the ECoR.