"In continuation of the measures taken in the wake of COVID-19 lockdown, it has been decided that all passenger train services on Indian Railways including premium trains, mail/express trains, passenger trains, suburban trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway etc shall continue to remain can...
The state-owned Indian Railways is one of the world's largest train networks, criss-crossing the country from north to south. It operates some 9,000 passenger trains and carries nearly 23 million passengers every day. However, train disasters are quite common in India as much of the colonial...
AC Express of Indian Railways are passenger trains with full air conditioned coaches, travel at 130 km/h speed at some sections and among the fastest trains in India. Hamsafar Express Humsafar Expressare fully 3 tier AC designed trains of Indian Railways with modern facilities like comfortable ber...
The 1890s saw the introduction of new passenger amenities, including toilets, gas lamps and electric lighting. By this point the popularity of the railways had skyrocketed and overcrowding led to the creation of a fourth class onboard. By 1895, India had started building its own locomotives and...
The Indian Railways are spread all over the country covering a route of 63000 Kilometers and as per the records Indian Railways runs a total of 14400+ trains on daily basis which includes the passenger trains The Railways have made a profit of US$ 4.6 billion-versus US$ 3.4 billion in ...
state-of-the-art "push-pull train" is poised to make its debut by October this year, marking a significant advancement in passenger rail travel. According to a senior Railway official, this innovation is in line with Indian Railways' commitment to providing diverse travel options to its ...
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Today, Indian Railways, one of the largest rail networks in Asia, typically carries 23m passengers a day on its suburban and long-distance trains, with more than 12,600 daily trains covering 115,000km of tracks. But with passenger services halted and no clarity on when they might resume, ...
In this paper, we discuss a model to allocate train capacity among multiple travel segments on an Indian Railways train route with several stops. We use a linear programming model and data preprocessing and postprocessing to determine the optimal capacity allocation on multiple travel legs. The mod...