Railways mulls LHB coaches as safety measure

To minimise casualties after derailments, the Railways are contemplating switching over from indigenous ICF coaches to German technology based LHB coaches in all mail and express trains as a safety......

19 killed in Assam violence, mob stops Rajdhani Express

Two more bodies were recovered on Monday taking the toll to 19 in the violence in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts, as the Rajdhani Express was stopped by protestors in Kokrajhar......

Ex-minister's son shot, train services disrupted

A former Bihar minister's son was shot dead in Bihar's Katihar district triggering protests with locals disrupting movement of trains on the Patna-Guwahati route as the sub-divisional town of......

Assam protests: 106 trains cancelled, short-terminated

IMAGE: Security personnel during the second day of the indefinite curfew imposed in Guwahati on Friday. Photograph: PTI Photo At least 106 passenger trains were either cancelled or......

Will the railways change to safer LHB coaches?

Two high-level railway safety commissions came down heavily on ICF coaches, recommending their replacement by LHBs, says Bibek Debroy. ICF stands for the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai......

Mamata Budget offers 57 new trains

Fifty-sevennew trainswereproposedby the railways ministerMamata Banerjee as she presentedthe Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday.These are: 1. Vishakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Mumbai......

Trains take political track

If a prime minister could be chosen on the basis of announcing new trains, Lalu Prasad would be there already. An unprecedented number of new trains-- 43 in all-- with a majority of them touching......

Good news for rail passenger: Flexi-fare scrapped for 15 trains

The Railways has also reduced flexi-fares from 1.5 to 1.4 times the base ticket fare in 101 trains In a relief for passengers, the Railways has scrapped flexi-fare in 15 premium trains in which......