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The flexi-fare ticketing system received several complaints from passengers who weren’t happy with the high ticket fares.

The advanced surveillance cameras will be installed for monitoring and surveillance purposes, and could assure better security to passengers in the train.

47 additional stations will now fall under the radar of Operation Muskaan, tallying to a total of 82 stations. Of these, 75 stations fall under the ‘A1’ category.

Close to 500 trains are to have their running time knocked down to 120 minutes, via increased speed and 50 ordinary mail or express trains will soon be upgraded to ‘superfast’ services.

The locomotive will bring down greenhouse emissions.

The deluxe train connecting Varanasi with Surat and Vadodara in Gujarat, will be launched at 3.30 pm by the Prime Minister using a remote control via video conferencing.

Railway Protection Special force officials - including head constable Thirumalesha, constables RS Sundo and Chandramani - were on their usual track patrol duty, to curb theft of passenger belongings.

After having met with an accident in January that left him with a fractured leg, Sudhakar depends on the wheelchair service provided by Namma Metro staff to go for work since June.

Hopefully, with the new train, the Mumbai-Delhi line will once again become the reserve of business travellers, who now prefer to travel by air.

The Railways will put an end to pasting reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains originating from selected stations, on an experimental basis for a duration of three months.