With a view to clearing additional rush of passengers and also providing comfortable journey to the commuters during the summer season, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run nine pairs of weekly and biweekly summer special trains including six Suvidha Train towards different destinations of the country from its jurisdiction by creating a number of additional berths.
Apart from this, three pairs of long distance Summer Special Trains will also run through ECoR for the benefit of the passengers.
The Suvidha trains include Puri-Santragachhi, Sambalpur-Yesvantpur, Bhubaneswar-Krishnarajpuram (Bangalore), Visakhapatnam-Krishnarajpuram, Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad, Visakhapatnam-Tirupati and Special trains like Kochuvelli-Guwahati and Shalimar-Puri etc.
Apart from this, a number of special trains have been planned to ply between different destinations of the country through ECoR jurisdiction during summer according to the feasibility and demands from the passengers and will also create more berths from ECoR. Besides, important regular trains have been planned to be augmented with additional coaches during the period by creating additional berths. Based on an analysis of the Passenger Traffic Profile on various routes, permanent augmentation of coaches in Mail/Express trains is being done by attaching more coaches, said an ECoR release.