Movement of trains to be increased : CRB

Shashank Shekhar

Dhanbad ( Jharkhand) :  Aware of ever increasing load on rail traffic on grand chord line  connecting Howrah –Dhanbad rail route, Chairman Railway Board (CRB), Ashwini Lohani on December 2, 2017, declared that  in coming  days speed of all trains including that Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duranto and goods trains will be increased  to accelerate the movement of trains on grand chord route to clear big rush of rail traffic. The route at present witnesses movement of trains at maximum 110—115 kms per hour which only Rajdhani Express train maintains.

Lohani  has given an optimistic picture of accelerating  the speed  of faster trains to 60 km per hours including that of Rajdhani, Duranto, Shatabdi on which development and research works are in progress while other mail and express train speed will also be accelerated. “ Not only passenger trains,  speed of all goods trains shall be increased,” promised the CRB.

Lohani was talking to mediapersons at Dhanbad station where he came for inspection of newly laid Tori-Shivpur railway track besides inspecting Dhanbad railway junction which is one of the most revenue earning  stations in the country for the railways. Lohani added that to speed up the train,  strengthening of rail tracks are mandatory on which work is already in progress.

On the issue of  starting of rail  traffic on Dhanbad –Chadrapura (DC) route which was stopped 3 months ago  due to underground fire, the CRB said a high level meeting has been convened under railway minister over the issue on December 15, 2017, in Delhi. The meeting will take afinal final decision on it.

Dhanbad MP  P N Singh, local MLA Raj Sinha, Dhanbad Mayor C S Agrawal  and other people personally met the CRB Lohani at DRM office and requested him to  re-start traffic on DC route. Later, Lohani promised that railways was committed to give more facilities to passengers in coming days for which major  decisions have been taken by railway board.