A new base kitchen is being established in Dhanbad by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to provide fresh food and snacks on trains passing through Dhanbad station. The base kitchen, located in Barmasia Road Chiragoड़ा, will be inaugurated on July 15th. Initially, the base kitchen will cater to...
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premium trains and other mail/express trains passing through Dhanbad, including the New Delhi-Howrah Rajdhani Express and New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express. The base kitchen will be operated by RK Associates & Hoteliers Private Limited, which also manages base kitchens in other stations in Jharkhand. The facility has separate sections for vegetarian and non-vegetarian food preparation, as well as a dedicated section for parathas. The kitchen is air-conditioned and equipped with chimneys and hygiene facilities. The establishment of base kitchens is part of the Indian Railways' plan to eliminate pantry cars from trains, aiming to improve the quality and hygiene of food served to passengers. The base kitchen in Dhanbad will initially serve 12302 Howrah Rajdhani Express and 12314 Sealdah Rajdhani Express. Plans are in place to extend services to other trains like 13151 Kolkata-Jammu Tawi Express, 12019-12020 Howrah-Ranchi-Howrah Shatabdi Express, 22317 Sealdah-Jammu Tawi Humsafar Express, 12260 Bikaner-Sealdah Duronto Express, 12379 Sealdah-Amritsar Jallianwala Bagh Express, and 12329 Sealdah-Anand Vihar West Bengal Sampark Kranti Express.

Due to redevelopment work at Prayagraj Junction, the platforms for 101 trains will change starting Wednesday. 69 trains that currently arrive at platforms 4 and 5, along with 32 trains that arrive at platforms 7-8 and 9-10, will be shifted to different platforms. The redevelopment work, which includes pillar and piling...
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work, will take place on platforms 4 and 5 and is scheduled to be completed by July 26. Among the trains affected are Rajdhani Express trains.

A passenger, Uttam Mukherjee, the President of Dhanbad's CWCI, suffered an injury on the 12260 New Delhi-Sealdah Duronto Express due to a faulty door. The B-4 coach's door was held together with wires, posing a risk to passengers. Mukherjee, travelling with his family in berth number 72 of the B-4 coach,...
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complained about the broken door latch. The door was loosely hanging and could easily hit passengers sitting in berth number 72. He contacted the railway authorities and after multiple complaints, the door was repaired by a technical team.

A proposal has been sent to the Railway Board to provide halts for 12 pairs of trains, including the Agartala, Sealdah Rajdhani, and other trains at Prayagraj Junction. Currently, 24 trains pass through Prayagraj Junction without stopping, causing inconvenience to passengers. With the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, the demand...
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for halting these trains has increased. The North Central Railway Prayagraj Division hopes that the Railway Board will approve the proposal. The current list of trains without a halt at Prayagraj Junction includes the Rajendra Nagar-New Delhi Sampoorna Kranti Express (12393/12394), Sealdah-Anand Vihar West Bengal Sampark Kranti (12329/12330), Sealdah-Amritsar Superfast (12379/12380), New Delhi-Agartala Rajdhani Express (20501/20502), Bikaner-Sealdah Duronto Express (12259/12260), Ranchi-Anand Vihar Superfast (12825/12826), Bhubaneshwar-Anand Vihar Odisha Sampark Kranti (12819/12820), Sealdah-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (12313/12314), Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (20839/20840), New Delhi-Howrah Duronto Express (12273/12274), New Delhi-Bhubaneshwar Humsafar Express (12281/12282), and Delhi-Bhagalpur Vikramshila Express (12367/12368).

There is good news for railway passengers. There is hope that 12 pairs of trains, including the Agartala and Sealdah Rajdhani Express, will start stopping at Prayagraj Junction before the Kumbh Mela. Currently, 24 trains pass through Prayagraj Junction without stopping. A proposal has been sent to the Railway Board regarding...
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this. It is expected that these trains will start stopping at the junction before the Kumbh Mela. A total of 264 trains pass through Prayagraj Junction, with 35 pairs (70 trains) operating daily, 108 trains operating once a week, and others operating between two to four days a week. Prayagraj is the most populous district in the state and is also known as a religious and spiritual city. Several state-level offices, including the Allahabad High Court, are located in Prayagraj. Despite being the location of the General Manager and Divisional Railway Manager offices, 24 pairs of trains do not stop here, while all of these trains stop at Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction, located approximately 150 km away. Considering the upcoming Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj next year, a demand has been made to ensure that all trains passing through the city stop there. Currently, a proposal has been sent to the Railway Board for all non-stop trains passing through Prayagraj to stop, keeping the Kumbh Mela in mind. The Senior DCM of North Central Railway Prayagraj Division, Himanshu Shukla, states that there is hope that the board will grant permission for the trains to stop here.