Delhi-Katra daily train service from tomorrow

July 13, 2014 04:34 pm | Updated 04:36 pm IST - New Delhi

Katra : Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda, Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, N N Vohra, J&K CM Omar Abdullah flagging off the first train (Shri Shakti Express) to Udhampur, from Katra Railway Station on Friday. PTI Photo by Atul Yadav (PTI7_4_2014_000048B)

Katra : Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda, Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, N N Vohra, J&K CM Omar Abdullah flagging off the first train (Shri Shakti Express) to Udhampur, from Katra Railway Station on Friday. PTI Photo by Atul Yadav (PTI7_4_2014_000048B)

Railways will introduce from Monday, daily train service from New Delhi to Katra, the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine.

The AC superfast Shri Shakti Express will depart from New Delhi station at 5:30 pm daily and arrive at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra station at 5:10 am the next day.

Similarly, in the return direction, it will depart from there at 10:55 pm daily and reach New Delhi at 10:45 am the next day, a Northern Railway statement said.

Comprising one first AC, five AC two-tier and nine AC three-tier coaches, the train will have stoppages at Ambala Cantt, Ludhiana, Jalandhar Cantt, Pathankot Cantt, Jammu Tawi and Udhampur stations enroute in both directions.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on July 4 >flagged off the first train from Katra while commissioning the 25-km-long Udhampur-Katra line, built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,132.75 crore.

At the function, the Prime Minister had named the train Shri Shakti Express and said such services are planned from major cities in the country. The shrine attracts about 10 million pilgrims annually.

The train connectivity to Katra is part of the ambitious Kashmir rail link project marking region’s rail connectivity with the rest of the country.

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