01501 Special will depart Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in Mumbai at 8.30 am on August 18 and arrive Madgaon at 10.40 pm the same day
Passengers will be able to make the reservations from Wedneday. Representational pic
Central Railways will operate two special train services between Mumbai and Madgaon to cater to long weekend rush of passengers on August 17 and 18.
The complete details of the train operations are given below:
01501 Special will depart Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in Mumbai at 8.30 am on August 18 and arrive Madgaon at 10.40 pm the same day.
01502 Special will depart Madgaon at 4.30 pm on August 17 and arrive at LTT Mumbai at 6 am the next day.
Both the trains will halt are Thane, Panvel, Pen, Roha, Mangaon, Veer, Khed, Chiplun, Sangameshwar Road, Ratnagiri, Adavali, Vilavade, Rajapur Road, Vaibhavwadi Road, Kankavali, Sindhudurg, Kudal, Sawantwadi Road, Thivim and Karmali stations.
The Central Railway, in its press release on Monday, said that the trains will have one AC-2 tier, three AC-3 tier, two AC-3 tier economy, eight sleeper class, four general second class, one generator car and 1 second seating-and-guard’s brake van compartments.
Passengers can make the reservations for Train no 01501 from Wednesday at all computerised reservation centres and on website www.irctc.co.in. For detailed timings at halts of these special trains, passengers can visit www.enquiry.indianrail.gov.in or download the NTES App.
Curbs leave Central Railway passengers stranded on Raksha Bandhan night
Central Railway (CR) commuters were left suffering on Raksha Bandhan (Saturday, August 9) as late-night rail curbs and cancellations left them without trains, while other modes of transit, such as buses, were ill-prepared to ferry them. Commuters alleged that CR officials have been disconnected from the commuting public and never take any local festivities into account while planning their work.
Top CR managers at the head office remained busy with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s launch of the Nagpur-Pune Vande Bharat train on Sunday morning. Being Raksha Bandhan, families returning home at night were stranded en masse at stations, leading to chaos. No elected representative from the city, however, raised the issue with CR.
What was the work done?
The local train cancellations were announced on the mainline, the harbour line and the trans-harbour line for several pending infrastructure works, including placing girders for the Lokgram bridge in Kalyan, delaunching of girders of an old road bridge in Ambernath on the main line, commissioning of the electronic interlocking signalling system at Vashi on the harbour line, and casting of a slab for a road bridge on the Thane-Vashi trans-harbour line.
Lack of communication
CR issued a press note around 10.30 pm on Friday, leading to problems as no newspaper was able to highlight it in time, leaving commuters unaware. There was a lack of proper announcements at stations, and the reach of social media handles remained limited.
Commuters vent
Krishna Rajendra, a commuter, told mid-day, “There were no trains after midnight towards Dombivli/Kalyan/Kasara. There was chaos at Thane railway station, and I was stranded with my family, baby in hand.” Another commuter, Saiyed Umar, said, “No local train available beyond Thane. Why? Children, women and senior citizens were present at railway stations.”
An angry commuter, Akshaya Jadhav, said, “Don’t the Railways know that large crowds comprising families travel on Raksha Bandhan? Why does it plan blocks on such a day? This is what happens when you have railway managers who have no clue about the city.”
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