This is an archive article published on November 13, 2021

Railways to restore passenger trains to pre-Covid level

As many as 1,768 long-distance mail/express trains will stand restored within a few days, the Railway Board said in a notification issued on Friday.

After Friday's order, the trains -- which had been running as "special" trains with additional charges -- too will cease and the special charges will not be levied. (Representational)

By: Express News Service

2 min readNew DelhiNov 13, 2021 08:43 AM IST First published on: Nov 13, 2021 at 04:26 AM IST

Passenger train services will be restored to pre-Covid levels in the next few days, the Indian Railways has said, nearly one-and-a-half year after operations were restarted in a graded manner following the first nationwide lockdown.

As many as 1,768 long-distance mail/express trains — the daily average number of trains — will stand restored within a few days, the Railway Board said in a notification issued on Friday.

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After Friday’s order, the trains — which had been running as “special” trains with additional charges — too will cease and the special charges will not be levied. While all the trains are running as “special”, around 19% of them are running with special fares that are around 30% more than regular fares. Those trains will also revert to original, pre-Covid fares.