* Lalu presents interim Railway budget * This is UPA's last rail budget in its term * Railways has a Rs 90,000 cr profit * Rs 10,500 cr allocated for pension requirements * 6th Pay Commission to hike expense by Rs 13,500 cr * Steep fall in container traffic * Work on Delhi-Mumbai freight corridor started * Rlys to invest Rs 35,900 cr in 2009 * Railway connectivity to Kashmir initiated * Passenger growth up 14 pct * Passenger trains to have 22 pct more capacity * Efficiency of passenger and goods wagons to be hiked * Goods trains to have 78 pct added capacity * 4 Railways inquiry call centres set up * Electrification of 1000 km of rail lines completed * Wagon production to be hiked from 6600 to 15000 * Railways invested Rs 70,000 cr out of surplus * Railways to invest Rs 2,30,000 cr in 11th plan * Railways reported Rs 25,000 cr cash surplus last year * Revenues have risen by 39 paise a tonne/km since 2001 * Costs have fallen by 7 paise a tonne/km since 2001 * Gaps in the network will be bridged: Lalu * Railways got loans at 4 pct * Accidents come down from 325 in 03-04 to 194 in 07-08 * Railways has grown freight at the rate of 8 pct over last 5 yrs * Research on for bullet trains * FY10 operating ratio seen at 88% * Mumbai-Bikaner superfast bi-weekly * Nizamuddin-Bangalore Rajdhani tri-weekly * Lalu gives 2 pct cut in AC and mail train fares * Forty-three new trains announced * Laid 1100 kms of new rail lines * Bhubaneshwar-New Delhi Rajdhani becomes 4 days a week * New Delhi-Ahmedabad Rajdhani becomes daily
