Mumbai: Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) plan to run additional service to address the additional demand during summer.
There will be six additional summer specials between Mumbai and Goa operated by CR, for which bookings will open on Tuesday morning. The services will be till Karmali in Goa. Four services will connect Panvel, while two will start and end at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT).
The special from CSMT is scheduled for May 2, and the train to CSMT will leave Karmali on May 4. The specials from Panvel will leave at 11.40 p.m. on May 2 and May 3, while the trains terminating at Panvel will depart in the afternoon from Goa on the same days.
The trains will have 15 sleeper coaches and two general ones. The specials will halt at Roha, Khed, Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Kankavali, Kudal and Thivim. The service to and from CSMT will have three more halts at Panvel, Thane and Dadar.
The WR will extend the special Rajdhani which runs thrice a week between Bandra and Hazrat Nizamuddin station in New Delhi for two more months. The service was originally intended to be run till May 16, but will now run till July 15. Bookings for the extended services will commence of May 2.
The train was introduced in October 2017 on an experimental basis for three months and its services were extended in January. It leaves from Bandra Terminus on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from Hazrat Nizamuddin station. It has only three halts: Surat, Vadodara and Kota.
