The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to three special trains under its jurisdiction till further notice. . These are Nagarcoil-Shalimar-Nagarcoil, Trivandrum-Shalimar-Trivandrum and Ernakulam-Patna-Ernakulam.The Nagarcoil-Shalimar Special from Nagarcoil would leave at 1445hrs on every Sunday w.e.f. November 22 and Shalimar-Nagarcoil Special from Shalimar would leave at 2350hrs on every Wednesdays w.e.f. November 25.
The Trivandrum-Shalimar Special from Trivandrum would leave at 1655hrs on every Thursday and Saturday w.e.f. November 28 and 02642 Shalimar-Trivandrum Special from Shalimar would leave at 2350hrs on every Sunday and Tuesday w.e.f December 1.Similarly, the Ernakulam-Patna Special from Ernakulam would leave at 1755hrs on every Monday and Tuesday w.e.f. November 2 and Patna- Ernakulam Special from Patna would leave at 1400hrs on every Thursday and Friday w.e.f. November 26 2020. All the aforesaid trains would have stoppages at Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam Road, Palasa, Brahmapur, Balugaon, Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur Keonjhar Road and Bhadrak.
The ECoR would also run a tourist special train ‘Bharat Darshan’ to south India. The train would leave Bhubaneswar on January 2, 20121 at 2200hrs towards Rameswaram, Madurai and Tirupati.