humsafar express

Gorakhpur-Bandra humsafar express (19092) witnessed a commotion Tuesday night after it received a hoax bomb call on Twitter, informed Upendra Srivastava, inspector-in-charge, GRP police station.

The train runs between Tiruchirappalli and Shri Ganganagar in Gujarat.

humsafar expresses are 3-tier AC trains.

Union railway minister Piyush Goyal flagged off the new weekly Patna-Banaswadi (Bengaluru) humsafar express (22353/12354) through remote control at a function held at Sono village in Jamui district on Saturday.

Facing a decline in its earnings, the Railways is likely to introduce the dynamic fare system in humsafar express trains, a special class service comprising only AC-3 coaches with many added facilities, to perk up revenue.

The newly inaugurated weekly ‘humsafar express’ between Sri Ganganagar and Tiruchchirappalli, will be passing and stopping at different stations in the Pune division, railway officials said on Tuesday.

The humsafar express, a weekly superfast luxury train to run between Agartala and Bengaluru, was flagged off from here on Friday.

The first-ever humsafar express in the Southern Railway will be flagged off from Kamakhya in Assam on December 25. humsafar expresses are 3-tier AC trains announced by railway minister Suresh Prabhu in the last Railway Budget.

Panic erupted on the Agartala-SMVT Bengaluru humsafar express as it passed through a Dima Hasao tunnel when smoke triggered fears of a fire. Passengers, trapped in darkness, fled the train, resulting in minor injuries. An investigation revealed the smoke detectors were likely set off by smoking, causing a false alarm and a four-hour delay at New Haflong station.

: The railway ministry has approved the introduction of Vijayawada-Howrah-Vijayawada Humsafar Superfast Express (Weekly). CM N Chandrababu Naidu and railway minister Suresh Prabhu will flag off the train in Vijayawada on Thursday.

Lucknow will get its share of much awaited high-end trains by December.

Northern railway authorities are all set to start another deluxe train for the commuters of northern and eastern railways on the first week of July. The new train —Special humsafar express (22317/22318)— will run form Sealdah (Kolkata) and Jammu-Tawi via major stations of Ferozpur Division including business city Ludhiana.