Keeping in view the passenger demand for rail travel, South Central Railway undertakes sustained measures to clear extra rush of passenger traffic during holidays and festival / pilgrim seasons. Thesemeasures include Permanent augmentation of existing trains with additional coaches, attaching extra coaches to existing trains to clear waitlisted passengers and running of special trains on popular routes which are well appreciated and patronized by the passengers as they are helpful for the needy passengers to reach their destinations comfortably.
Permanent augmentation of existing trains: South Central Railway took special efforts to rationalize the deployment of coaches and permanently augmented many existing trains on popular routes with 42 additional coaches ( 17 AC III Tier, 1 AC II Tier, 20 Sleeper Class and 4 General Second Class Coaches) during the first half of the current financial year (April to September 2012 ).
Extra coaches to existing trains: Close watch is being kept on the waiting list position of various trains on popular routes. Whenever the wait list is on the higher side, extra coaches are being attached to those trains for the benefit of the waitlisted passengers. During the first half of the current financial year, South Central Railway attached 6231 extra coachesand cleared around 3.7 lakhs waitlisted passengers.
Special Trains:South Central Railway has been operating special trains on popular routes to meet the extra rush of passengers during festival /holiday seasons on a regular basis. 219 special trains were run during April to September 2012 to various destinations such as Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Kolhapur, Santragachi, Tirupati, Nanded, Sainagar Shirdi, Ajmer, and Jaipur, etc and around 1,83 lakhs Passengers were transported by these trains.
Special Trains for Dasara & Deepavali: For the ensuring festive season of Dasara, Bakrid and Dieepavali in the month of October and November, SCR has already announced 108 special trains for these two months. These special trains will be operated to popular destinations such as Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Jaipur, Mumbai LTT, Santragachi, Nanded, Kakinada Town, Sainagar Shirdi and Jammutawi etc. The list of special trains announced from time to time is consolidated and attached herewith for the information of the public.
