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With the wide cancellation of flights by IndiGo and fares of different airlines skyrocketing, thousands of passengers stranded astatine airports crossed the state are heading to adjacent railway stations to drawback trains to their destinations.
To conscionable the other unreserved of passengers and increasing request for accommodation successful air-conditioned coaches, the Indian Railways augmented the capableness of trains crossed its network.
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Going by reports that came successful astatine 7 p.m. connected Friday (December 5, 2025), the railways added 116 other coaches to 37 trains, mostly successful Southern Railway, Northern Railway and Western Railway. The coaches included two-tier, three-tier and seat car AC coaches.
More coaches would beryllium added to trains heading to different destinations soon and the impermanent arrangements would proceed till the contented of formation cancellations was resolved, an authoritative successful the Southern Railway said.
On however the passengers reaching railway stations could avail the tickets, the authoritative said the berths would beryllium allotted connected a first-come-first service ground arsenic the preservation for these other coaches were not acceded to the computerised preservation strategy yet.
Special trains mooted
Acting connected instructions from the Railway Board, Zonal Railways were besides exploring the anticipation of operating peculiar trains to assorted destinations.
“The capableness of existing trains is 24 coaches. We tin adhd 1 oregon 2 much but the rake volition spell beyond the magnitude of the platforms making it hard for passengers to entrain/detrain. Since determination is simply a perennial request for accommodation successful trains to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Howrah, we are exploring the anticipation of moving peculiar trains if determination is request from the passengers,” the authoritative said.
Southern Railway unsocial added further coaches to 16 explicit trains, with galore to run till December 11.
