Railways to start two Duronto trains before Durga Puja
By IANSMonday, September 7, 2009
NEW DELHI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will flag off two non-stop Duronto Sewa trains before the Durga Puja festival begins Sep 25.
“Indian Railways will be starting at least two Duronto Sewa trains, from New Delhi to Sealdah and New Delhi to Chennai,” a senior ministry official said.
“The New Delhi-Chennai Duronto service is likely to start in the second week of September,” the official added.
The service to Sealdah is expected to start a week later.
Both trains will be bi-weekly with only two or three technical stoppages, and will have both air-conditioned and non-airconditioned coaches.
The New Delhi-Sealdah will take 16 hours to cover the journey, as against 17 hours taken by Rajdhani Express.
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September 13, 2009: 10:59 pm
4 days left to start new train duranto express and reservation for this train is not started yet. I want to know that from whenticket reservation facility will be given on the resrevation counter or in internet. |
 Anil Pedgaonkar |
September 9, 2009: 9:34 am
Durantos is a giant step!. by taking this step Mamata Banerjee has superseeded all past railway ministers including shri laluprasad Yadav. uptill now superfast travel was the monopoly of uppermidle class airconditioned coach traveller. Duranto will be faster than rajdhani and will have non ac coaches. so it is better than garibarth. This is the step taken in the interst of common man. now we only want to see that sporadic garibraths , sampark krantis are merged with duranto and we can then expect a daily duranto between delhi-seladh, mumbai-n.delhi, mumbai-howrah, mumbai-bangalore, mumbai-hyderabad, etc. |
 prabir chatterjee |
September 8, 2009: 6:45 am
can any one inform me from which date the booking of non-stop train from sealdha to newdelhi will be available?as per rly.notification will this train have AC & non AC both coaches?what will be its alloted number?Is reservation will be available from any technical stopage on root? |
prasenjit bhattacharya