IRCTC to run 15 special trains from May 12; get full details of destinations and stoppages: Updated

Indian Railways in a bid to resume its services will be running 15 special trains from/to New Delhi starting tomorrow, May 12th, 2020. All these trains will be connecting 15 major cities to New Delhi including Howrah, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru among others. The booking process will begin from 4.00 pm today, May 11th.

The bookings for all these special trains can be only be done via the IRCTC mobile application or IRCTC website. Railways or IRCTC agents are not allowed to accept any bookings for these services.

The trains will be fully air-conditioned and Railways will be charging usual AC fares for these trains. All passengers must go through a COVID-19 screening process before and only asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to board the trains. Usage of facemask is mandatory.

The trains will have limited halts with stoppages only at stations as indicated in the table below.

Here is the list of special trains with stoppages, as reported by NDTV:

Tickets for these trains can be booked seven days in advance. Online cancellation is permitted if done at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train and 50% booked fare will be charged as a cancellation charge. No cancellation request will be entertained with less than 24 hours before the departure.

Passengers with valid tickets will be allowed to enter the respective railway stations and they will have to reach at least 90 minutes before the departure for screening purposes. The exact time schedule of these special trains has not been published yet and one can get information about the same during the booking process.

It should be noted that all these trains are different from the Shramik Express which are run for migrant daily wage workers. Indian Railways has already run more than 300 such trains ferrying more than 1.5 lakh workers, according to reports.