Railways to reduce travel time of 500 trains

New Delhi OCT 20: In a bid to reduce the travel time Indian Railways will soon cut short the running time of over 500 long distance trains by up to two hours.The new timings will be updated in the November timetable of the railways.

Officials have said that railway minister Piyush Goyal has issued directions to incorporate innovative timetabling under which the running time of popular trains will reduce by 15 minutes to two hours.

They have added that "Our plan is to maximise the use of the existing rolling stock. It can be done in two ways if we have a train that is waiting somewhere to return, we can use it during the lie over the period.In the new timetable around 50 such trains which will be run like this. Fifty-one trains will immediately see reduced run time from one to three hours. This will go up to more than 500 trains," the official added.

# 50 Mail and express trains will be upgraded to super-fast services.
# Bhopal-Jodhpur Express will reach 95 minutes early.
# Guwahati-Indore Special will complete its journey 115 minutes early.
# Ghazipur-Bandra Terminus Express will be completed 95 minutes earlier.
# Halt time of trains at stations has been reduced.
# Trains will not stop at stations where footfall is less.