With a view to lessening rush during summer, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run special trains between Kolkata and Puri by creating additional berths.
The Kolkata-Puri special train would leave Kolkata at 11.55 pm on every Sunday between May 13 and June 24, 2018 and will arrive at Puri at 10 am the next day. In the return direction, the Puri-Kolkata Special train would leave Puri at 11.30 pm on every Monday between May 14 and June 25, 2018 and will arrive at Kolkata at 10.20 am the following day.
This train has stoppages at Kharagpur, Baleswar, Bhadrak, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khordha Road both the directions.
Apart from this, Special Trains are also plying towards different destinations from and through the ECoR jurisdiction during this summer 2018. Important regular trains are also being augmented with additional coaches by creating additional berths, an official release said.