Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) plans to procure 200 more eco-friendly bio-toilets to provide the facility on more trains in the next few months. The decision was taken after successful trial of 48 bio-toilets fitted to the 17 coaches being run on Hyderabad-Mumbai Hussain Sagar Express and Kacheguda-Bangalore Express.
Bio-toilets were developed jointly by Railway Research and Standard Organisation (RDSO) and Defence Research Development Establishment (DRDE) for use in Indian Railways and are currently under trial in many of the zonal railways.
SCR, which has its headquarters in Hyderabad, took a lead in the trial and provided the facility in two trains.
The conventional toilets in the trains, by allowing human waste to fall on the tracks, cause unhygienic conditions and corrosion to track and coach fittings endangering the safety. Passengers use toilets while trains are at platforms and the track get scattered with human excreta creating unpleasant situation for passengers on the platforms, said a statement from SCR on Friday....
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06:00 AM, May 18, 2013
Hyderabad: The death toll in rain-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh rose to 17 on Sunday as heavy rains continued to lash several regions under the influence of cyclone 'Nilam', throwing normal life out of gear. Coastal districts bore the brunt of nature's fury with low-lying areas of East and West Godavari, Krishna and Visakhapatnam districts getting inundated by swollen rivulets, officials said here. Paddy and other crops over 2,43,634 hectares...
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Hyderabad: In a move which angered Telangana protagonists, the railways have cancelled over 40 trains and all local and sub-urban train services in Hyderabad in view of Sunday's Telangana march. In an attempt to prevent people from other districts of Telangana from reaching Hyderabad, the South Central Railway cancelled 12 express and 25 passenger trains. Another two express and five passenger trains have also been partially cancelled. The railways also...
11:38 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) has made special provisions to cater to the growing number of northeastern people from the city rushing toward their home states amid rumours of impending attacks on them in the wake of Assam violence. "Extra coaches are being attached to trains going towards Kolkata and Guwahati. While two additional general coaches were attached to Hyderabad-Howrah East Coast Express (18646) today, as many coaches will...
02:21 AM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai: If you are a local train commuter enjoying the fact that ticket checkers (TCs) have disappeared from platforms of late, dont rejoice just yet. In truth, they are more in number than ever, lurking in platforms in plain clothes. In place of the 5-10 ticket checkers deployed earlier per station, as many as 50-100 are flocking a single station these days. CRs income from fines is unprecedented this year....
02:21 PM, Aug 11, 2012
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05:42 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Nagpur: Central Railway has implemented a new, Advance Coaching Refund System (ACRS) recently to reduce the time taken for e-Tickets refunds. According to this system, all the e-ticket data is uploaded directly from IRCTC server to ACRS directly and dealt by the refund section in Chief Commercial Manager's Office, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai. The cases, in which the refund amount is sanctioned, it is transferred to IRCTC through pay order...
04:57 AM, May 12, 2012
Vidyadhar Malegaonkar, Chief PRO, Central Railway said that people in Mumbai were forced to trespass railway lines as "there are not too many connectivities". ...
08:29 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: A day after three people died because of heavy rush in Mumbai's local trains, officials are hopeful of restoring services to normal on Friday. They also say that trains just see a delay of maximum 10 minutes and that 95 per cent of the Central Railway is on track. The signal repairing work will also be completed by Friday night. On Thursday, three commuters in an overcrowded Kalyan CST...
08:21 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: If you stepped into a Central Railway station on Wednesday, you saw an uneasy crowd, enormous in number and short of temper, waiting at the platforms. The LED displays showing train arrivals were frozen at zero. Except for a staccato announcement about indefinite delays due to a technical problem, little else was communicated to this mass of people, waiting to go to work. Early on Wednesday, the first set...
01:02 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: The turbulence in local trains in Mumbai has taken a toll. Three people died after they fell from a local train between Nahur and Bhandup stations (central line) during heavy rush. Fifteen people were injured. The Nahur station is just ahead of the Mulund station. Central Railway chief PRO Vidyadhar Malegaonkar said the primary reason of the incident was overcrowding. Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy has announced compensation for...
12:04 PM, Apr 19, 2012
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08:02 AM, Apr 19, 2012
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10:52 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Thousands of commuters were stranded on the Central Railway (CR) stations on Wednesday after a midnight fire in a signal cabin. A CR spokesperson said it would take three to four days to fully restore the traffic, adding that services on the Harbour line were also hampered. Meanwhile, the following trains on the Central Line have rescheduled their departure timings. - 12261 Mumbai-Howrah Duranto: Scheduled departure at 17.15 hours,...
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08:17 PM, Mar 08, 2012
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02:33 PM, Mar 01, 2012
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10:51 AM, Dec 13, 2011
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The train celebrated its birthday amidst much fanfare and firecrackers. ...
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