After a swanky facelift and a new second gate, Nizamuddin station to offer wi-fi to passengers

Edit The Hindu 05 May 2016
After the recent makeover and construction of a second entry point, Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station will soon offer free wi-fi services to passengers. After New Delhi Railway Station, it will be the second railway station in the Capital to offer such services. “Passengers would very soon get wi-fi facility at the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station....

Fences fail to keep people off railway tracks

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has prosecuted 258 offenders for trespassing at the Nashik Road railway station and crossing the tracks at will until April this year, a significant rise of 102 as compared to the corresponding period last year ... "Locals find it convenient to reach the other side of the city by crossing the railway tracks ... Action is taken only when people do not adhere to the warning," a railway officer said....

Mumbai: RPF to patrol locals to catch thieves, enter police domain

Edit DNA India 05 May 2016
In what is possibly the first time the Railway Protection Force (RPF) will be entering what has till now been the preserve of the state railway police, Central Railway's RPF unit will be patrolling trains to catch thieves ... "As of now cases under Section 379 are registered by the railway police and the RPF did not play any role in it....

Red-eye bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing launches

Edit China Daily 05 May 2016
The first regular red-eye bullet train running from Shanghai to Beijing will start operation on May 15, Shanghai railway police authority said on Wednesday, the city's local news paper Xinmin Evening News reported. Shanghai railway police said that the red-eye bullet train, G8, will ......

Rlys to acquire land for track doubling

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
The Central Railway has released its plan for acquisition of 39 hectares of land for doubling the Pune-Miraj-Londha line ... The railways has estimated seven years' period for completion of the work ... Central Railway, Pune division....

Bizman dies at railway station , body donated

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
A businessman from Belagavi died of massive cardiac arrest at City Railway Station on Tuesday evening ... Veeresh Kotkal, a fertilizer businessman from Belagavi suffered a major heart attack and passed away at the Mysuru railway station on Tuesday evening ... Along with few passengers, I took my father to emergency unit where the railway doctors confirmed his death", he said....

Maharashtra: Third 50-wagon water rake dispatched to Latur

Edit DNA India 05 May 2016
The train was expected to reach Pune division of the Central Railway (CR) by Thursday afternoon ... The railways has already sent two rakes of 50 wagons each with water, from Miraj in Pune railway division to Latur ... According to the officials, the third rake will allow the railways to run two water rakes and transport 5 million litres of water to Latur on a daily basis....

Bhusawal division forms team to check violations

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
The Bhusawal division of Central Railways has formed a special team, Sajag, to carry out awareness among people and check violations of Indian Railway Act, 1989. With the need to check gross violations of the Railway Act, such as people travelling without proper ticket, food contractors not following norms and safety and security of ......

2 bodies found in trains bound for Ranchi, Hatia

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
Unidentified bodies of an elderly man and a young woman were found in two different express trains, which pulled into the Ranchi and Hatia railway stations, early on Wednesday....

IRCTC website 'hacked', personal details of lakhs feared stolen

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
Personal data of around 1 crore customers is feared to have been stolen from the server of the e-ticketing portal Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), thus raising fears of safety and security ... Seeking to promote helicopter tourism, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and Pawan Hans have joined hands under an agreement that would allow flyers to book tickets through IRCTC website....

Police, railways investigate whether IRCTC website was hacked

Edit DNA India 05 May 2016
A six-member team comprising officials from the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation and the Centre for Railway Information System has ......

Forget railway zone, no proposal even for Rajdhani Express from Andhra Pradesh

Edit The Times of India 05 May 2016
Even as the people are expecting a new railway zone to be formed for AP and political parties are milking the issue for their benefit, a Rajdhani Express to connect the new capital of Amaravati or Vijayawada via Vizag with New Delhi is yet to be considered ... To this, Union minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha said at present, there was no such proposal due to 'operational and resources constraints'....

Cafe owner 'being forced out'

Edit Otago Daily Times 05 May 2016
Sweet Station Cafe owner Tamara Jansen stands outside her business in the Dunedin Railway Station ... A Russian businesswoman believes she is being forced out of her leased premises in the Dunedin Railway Station by the Dunedin City Council to make way for a new family restaurant chain ... ‘‘It's a percentage share in the case of the railway station,'' he said....
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