Loss making Indian Railways to rent out hill trains to private playersNarrow and metre-gauge tracks linking the hill stations are set to be the first of the 108,000-kilometer rail network to be run privately
28 Jan, 2017, 06.48 AM IST
India will soon get Diamond Quadrilateral, promises Manoj SinhaSinha informed that Railways has signed an MoU with the Surface Transport Ministry for construction of Railway Over Bridges (ROBs) across t...
29 Jun, 2016, 01.25 AM IST
Popular passenger train Century Express chugs into pages of historyPeople decorated the platform with balloons, distributed water bottles to passengers, gave mementos to crew and also took selfies with the ...
15 May, 2016, 03.42 PM IST
Tipu Sultan's armoury will roll across to new locationThe abandoned armoury came to public attention after the railways planned doubling of track on the Mysuru-Bengaluru sector.
08 Jun, 2015, 11.45 AM IST
Railways urged to protect century-old train track as heritageVarious organisations in Assam's Dima Hasao have urged railway authorities to protect century-old meter gauge train track as a national her...
08 Nov, 2014, 07.56 PM IST
- Centre approves alignment of Metro rail along metre-gauge line
According to Patel, this new alignment of the Metro rail has increased the length of the route by two km and added one more station.
05 Nov, 2014, 11.08 PM IST
Last journey on Silchar-Lumding metre gauge line tomorrowThe metre gauge route covered a serpentine hills section going through green forests, rivulets and streams and mounting the highest ridge o...
27 Sep, 2014, 03.42 PM IST
4 lion deaths on rail tracksFour lions including cubs have been killed on the rail tracks in Gir Forest till June this year, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Saturday.
18 Jul, 2014, 05.44 PM IST
Udaipur to be connected by broad gauge rail by March 2015Udaipur, the headquarters of Gomati district, would be connected by broad gauge railway line by March next year, Tripura assembly was infor...
21 Feb, 2014, 04.12 PM IST
Agartala to get broad gauge connectivity by 2016If the required fund is available, North-East Frontier Railway will be able to extend the broad gauge rail connectivity to Agartala within ...
09 Sep, 2013, 12.35 PM IST
- India- Bangladesh Railway officers to meet on May 21
India and Bangladesh Railway officials would meet in Dhaka on May 21 to review the progress of work in the railway link between Agartala an...
18 May, 2013, 06.10 PM IST
- Death of seven elephants, matter taken up at high level
With a speeding goods train killing seven elephants in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, the matter has been taken up with environment and...
24 Sep, 2010, 12.35 PM IST
- Railways fail to achieve Plan targets
Indian Railways could achieve only 28 percent of the total 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12) targets in the first two years.
23 Apr, 2010, 04.56 PM IST
- Rajasthan temple town unites warring Ambani brothers
Ambani brothers are united for at least one cause: the development of Nathdwara town in Rajsamand district, about 45 km from Udaipur. Decad...
24 Aug, 2008, 03.44 PM IST
- Southern railway hopeful of achieving freight target
The Southern Railways is confident of achieving the annual target of 31.4 million tons of freight before this fiscal end, a top Railway off...
27 Dec, 2007, 07.28 PM IST
- Maoists blow up railway track in Bihar
CPI(Maoist) rebels blew up a railway track at Rajapatti station in Bihar's Saran district early on Sunday during the shutdown called by the...
02 Dec, 2007, 10.39 AM IST
- No SPURTs of disaster, please
The Railways is trying to devise a methodology to test the ability of tracks to withstand stress and force, the Union railway minister said...
06 Jul, 2004, 11.51 PM IST