Bihar: Railways to short terminate few trains in Samastipur division

PATNA: The East Central Railway (ECR) has short terminated several special passenger trains and also diverted some on the Darbhanga-Samastipur and Jayanagar-Samastipur sections under Samastipur division from June 21 to 27 due to non-interlocking (NI) work to be carried out in the railway yards of Thalwara, Laheriasarai and Darbhanga stations.
ECR chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar said the Lokamanya Tilak- Darbhanga special train (01061/01062) and Amritsar-Jayanagar special train (04673/04674) will short terminate at Samastipur during this period. Similarly, Jayanagar-Amritsar special train (04649/04650) will start its return journey to Amritsar from Samastipur.
Besides, railways has diverted the routes of Darbhanga-New Delhi special train (02565/02566) via Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur instead of Samastipur-Muzaffarpur-Gorakhpur route while Darbhanga-Ahmedabad special train (09165/09166) will run via Sitamarhi-Muzaffarpur instead of Samastipur-Muzaffarpur during this period.
According to CPRO, railways has increased the speed limit of passenger trains under Samastipur and Sonepur divisions after completion of track upgradation work. Passenger trains have been allowed to run from 75 to 110km/hour on the Hajipur–Goshwar section, while speed limit on the Kurhani–Ram Dayalu Nagar has been increased from 70 to 110km/hour. Sectional speed limit has been increased from 80 to 110km per hour on the Chaudharana-Ram Dayalu Nagar section.
The sectional speed of passenger trains has been increased from 75 to 110km/hour on the Goraul-Bhagwanpur section while speed limit has also been increased from 80 to 100km per hour on Samastipur-Kisanpur route. Likewise, passenger trains will now run at the speed limit of 100km/hour on Mansi–Saharsa route while speed limit has been increased from 60 to 100km/hour on the Kodarma-Hazaribagh route after track upgradation work.
Railways has also increased sectional speed of passenger trains up to 100km/hour on Dauram Madhepur–Purnea, Bhagwanpur–Sarai, Moinuddin Nagar-Bachhwara, Bachhwara-Vidyapathi Dham, Sakri-Jayanagar, Raxaul-Narkatiaganj and Bargania–Chudharana sections of the ECR to improve further traffic operations on these routes.
Altogether 58 special passenger trains are currently running from different places of the ECR jurisdiction and 57 of them have registered cent percent punctuality in the zone on Friday.