Central Railway to operate two special trains between Mumbai and Madgaon on August 17, 18

Central Railways will operate two special train services between Mumbai and Madgaon to cater to long weekend rush of passengers on August 17 and 18The complete details of the train operations are given below01501 Special will depart Lokmanya Tilak Terminus LTT in Mumbai at 830 am on August 18 and arrive Madgaon at 1040 pm the same day01502 Special will depart Madgaon at 430 pm on August 17 and arrive at LTT Mumbai at 6 am the next dayBoth the trains will halt are Thane Panvel Pen Roha Mangaon Veer Khed Chiplun Sangameshwar Road Ratnagiri Adavali Vilavade Rajapur Road Vaibhavwadi Road Kankavali Sindhudurg Kudal Sawantwadi Road Thivim and Karmali stationsThe Central Railway in its press release on Monday said that the trains will have one AC2 tier three AC3 tier two AC3 tier economy eight sleeper class four general second class one generator car and 1 second seatingandguardrsquos brake van compartmentsPassengers can make the reservations for Train no 01501 from Wednesday at all computerised reservation centres and on website wwwirctccoin For detailed timings at halts of these special trains passengers can visit wwwenquiryindianrailgovin or download the NTES AppCurbs leave Central Railway passengers stranded on Raksha Bandhan nightCentral Railway CR commuters were left suffering on Raksha Bandhan Saturday August 9 as latenight rail curbs and cancellations left them without trains while other modes of transit such as buses were illprepared to ferry them Commuters alleged that CR officials have been disconnected from the commuting public and never take any local festivities into account while planning their workTop CR managers at the head office remained busy with Prime Minister Narendra Modirsquos launch of the NagpurPune Vande Bharat train on Sunday morning Being Raksha Bandhan families returning home at night were stranded en masse at stations leading to chaos No elected representative from the city however raised the issue with CRWhat was the work doneThe local train cancellations were announced on the mainline the harbour line and the transharbour line for several pending infrastructure works including placing girders for the Lokgram bridge in Kalyan delaunching of girders of an old road bridge in Ambernath on the main line commissioning of the electronic interlocking signalling system at Vashi on the harbour line and casting of a slab for a road bridge on the ThaneVashi transharbour lineLack of communicationCR issued a press note around 1030 pm on Friday leading to problems as no newspaper was able to highlight it in time leaving commuters unaware There was a lack of proper announcements at stations and the reach of social media handles remained limitedCommuters ventKrishna Rajendra a commuter told midday ldquoThere were no trains after midnight towards DombivliKalyanKasara There was chaos at Thane railway station and I was stranded with my family baby in handrdquo Another commuter Saiyed Umar said ldquoNo local train available beyond Thane Why Children women and senior citizens were present at railway stationsrdquoAn angry commuter Akshaya Jadhav said ldquoDonrsquot the Railways know that large crowds comprising families travel on Raksha Bandhan Why does it plan blocks on such a day This is what happens when you have railway managers who have no clue about the cityrdquo