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Thursday, February 16, 2012

VISAKHAPATNAM-DIGHA NEW TRAIN TO BE INTRODUCED FROM 17TH FEBRUARY


As announced in last Railway Budget for running of a weekly express train between Visakhapatnam & Digha and to provide better facilities to the commuters, Railways have decided to introduce a new train between Visakhapatnam & Digha w.e.f. from 17thFebruary 2012.

On the inaugural run, Digha-Visakhapatnam-Digha weekly Express will be inaugurated from Ramnagar Station and will run as a special train o­n open fast times towards Visakhapatnam. However, the regular service of 22874/22873 Visakhapatnam-Digha-VisakhapatnamExpress will commence from Visakhapatnam w.e.f. 23rd Feb’12 & from Digha w.e.f. 24thFeb’2012.

22874/22873Visakhapatnam-Digha-Visakhapatnam Weekly Superfast Express will leave Visakhapatnam at 17.50hrs o­n every Thursday w.e.f. 23rdFeb’2012 and will arrive at Digha at 09.30hrs o­n the next days. In the return direction, this train will leave Digha at 17.15hrs o­n every Friday w.e.f. 24thFeb’2012 and will arrive at Visakhapatnam at 08.20hrs o­n the following days.

          This train has o­ne AC-2 tier, o­ne AC-3 tier, SixSleeper Class Coaches, Six General Second Class Coaches and Two Guard cum Luggage Vans in its composition having stoppages at Vizianagaram, Palasa, Brahmapur, Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jaleswar, Kharagpur, Panskura, Tamluk and Kanthi between Visakhapatnam & Digha.