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ECoR to operate one more special

BHUBANESWAR: In view of ever swelling of numbers of passengers for dusshera festival, East Coast Railways (ECR) has decided to run one more pair of Durga Puja Special Train between Puri and Howrah.

The 0896 Puri-Howrah special train would leave Puri at 11.00 PM on October 16 and 23 (Tuesdays) and would arrive Howrah at 9.10 AM next days, an ECR press release said here on Tuesday.

Similarly, on the return, the 0895 Howrah-Puri special train would leave Howrah at 8.55 PM on October 17 and 24 (Wednesdays) and would arrive Puri on the following days.

This Special Train would have one AC-2 tier, two AC-3 tiers, nine sleeper class Coaches and six general second class coaches. It would stop at Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Balasore and Kharagpur between Puri and Howrah.

In another decision, ECR also decided to revise the composition 2892/2891 Bhubaneswar-BaripadaBhubaneswar tri-weekly Superfast Express with effect from October 19. The train will run with six second class chair cars and two guard cum luggage vans in its revised composition.

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