New Delhi: Despite running hundreds of special trains during the festive season, passengers are facing difficulties in getting tickets. Meanwhile, long waiting list in 300 trains is another proof of passengers’ trouble. Senior officials of Indian Railway said that 327 trains running currently have waiting list.
However, Railway is working to solve this problem soon enough.
Railway Board Chairman recently said the number of tickets is being analysed thoroughly to end the problem of waiting list. He further said that planning is underway to run more trains on busiest routes with maximum waiting list. Extra trains can be operated on these routes after analysing data.
Also, Indian Railways is planning to run clone trains to being an end to passengers’ plight of not getting confirmed seats.
So what is a clone train?
A clone train is the one running with the same number like the actual train. For example the 12423/12424 New Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express has all the seats got reserved and still has a heavy demand of waitlisted passengers.
So in that case, Indian Railways will put another rake of the Rajdhani Express with the same number just to carry waitlisted ticket-holders.
Moreover, the waitlisted passengers will be informed about their berths in the clone train soon after the reservation charts for the original scheduled trains are drawn up four hours before departure.
However, it will be a logistical challenge for the Railways as it will require additional rakes for running the clone trains. The Railways will try to run these type of trains from major cities initially where there are additional rakes.