Central Railways (CR) have decided to introduce First AC coach in Pune-Gorakhpur Express with effect from the dates mentioned below:

15030 Pune-Gorakhpur Express Ex Pune with effect from 08/10/2022 

15029 Gorakhpur-Pune Express Ex Gorakhpur with effect from 06/10/2022.

*Revised composition:* One First AC, Two AC-2 Tier, 8 AC-3 Tier, 5 Sleeper Class, Five General second class including one Guard's Brake Vans and One Generator Van. 

In addition, railways has decided to run unreserved special Trains between Mumbai, Wadi and Hyderabad to clear the extra rush of passengers of Pilgrims. The details are as under:- 07175 unreserved special will leave Hyderabad at 10.05 hrs on 12.08.2022 and will arrive Wadi 15.30 hrs same day. 07176 unreserved special will leave Wadi at 16.20 hrs on 12.08.2022 and will arrive Hyderabad at 21.20 hrs same day. 07177 unreserved special will leave Hyderabad at 05.00 hrs on 14.08.2022 and will arrive Wadi 10.15 hrs same day. 07178 unreserved special will leave Wadi at 11.05 hrs on 14.08.2022 and will arrive Hyderabad at 16.00 hrs same day. Halts: Begumpet, Sanathnagar, Hafeezpet, Lingampalli, Nagalapalli, Shankarpalli, Gullaguda, Chitgidda, Vikarabad, Godamgura, Dharur, Rukmapur, Tandur, Mantatti, Nawandgi, Kurgunta, Seram, Malkhaid Road and Chittapur. Composition: 18 General Second class including 2 Guard’s brake vans. Passengers are advised to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour for their and other’s safety.  Moreover, passengers are requested to avail the facility.

Mumbai’s air-conditioned (AC) local trains commuters on Western Railways (WR) faced inconvenience after a major technical glitch occurred on Thursday afternoon, July 28.

According to reports, the automatic doors of the Virar-bound AC local train of three coaches did not open at eight key stations.

The train was operating between Churchgate and Virar. However, door of the train did not open at Andheri, Borivali, Dahisar, Mira Road, Bhayandar, Naigaon, Nalasopara and Virar railway stations.

It has come to light that later the railway authorities manually opened the doors for passengers to board and deboard from the AC local train compartment.

The train halted at Borivali railway station at 3.39 pm and was held up till 3.47 pm to inspect why the doors did not open. At other stations, the doors of the three compartments were opened manually by railway personnel.

Owing to this, the train was delayed by a total of 10 minutes till it reached the Virar railway station.

Official further stated that the system override was given at Borivali but was not successful and then the batteries of the electronic systems were reset at Virar, following which the train started functioning normally.