Railways

Central Railway (CR) has completed locomotive trials of Kavach in the Mumbai division, with trials conducted at Somatne, Apta and Jite stations on the Panvel-Roha section. With this, CR has become the first zone to […]

Mr. R Rajagopal has been appointed as the Member (Traction & Rolling Stock), Railway Board. He is an officer of the 1987 batch of the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) and has nearly 30 years […]

The Union Government has launched three new Amrit Bharat Express trains in Bihar. These include the Muzaffarpur-Hyderabad (Charlapalli), Chhapra-Delhi (Anand Vihar Terminal), and Darbhanga-Ajmer (Madar) Amrit Bharat Express trains. With this launch, the total number […]

The Union Government has launched two Vande Bharat Express train services in Rajasthan, with routes connecting Bikaner-Delhi Cantt and Jodhpur-Delhi Cantt. These trains will be operated and maintained by the North Western Railway (NWR) zone.

North Central Railway (NCR) conducted a live demonstration of cleaning solar panels using drone-based technology at Subedarganj railway station (SFG). The drone used features four nozzles that spray water at the target area and is […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the Tilaiya-Rajgir-Bakhtiyarpur Rail Line Doubling Project in Bihar. The project involves doubling of an existing 104 km long railway line from Tilaiya to Bakhtiyarpur via Rajgir at […]

Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA) has completed around 50 per cent work on the Redevelopment of Nagpur Railway Station Project. Besides, the project is expected to be completed by December 2026. Further, one G+7 building […]

Indian Railways (IR) plans to launch a Vande Bharat Express train connecting New Delhi with Firozpur Cantonment in Punjab. The train is expected to cover a distance of 486 km in about six hours and […]

National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) achieved the breakthrough of a 4.88 km long tunnel between Shilphata-Ghansoli section in connection with the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (HSR) Corridor Project. The tunnel, excavated using the New […]

The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has conducted a safety inspection on the 18 km long Sarsa Jamalpur-Asthawan rail section of the Fatuah-Islampur New Railway Line with Material Modification for Neora-Daniawan-Biharsharif-Barbigha-Sheikhpura New Lines. The project […]

The construction work on the Nimach-Ratlam Railway Line Doubling Project has reached its final stage and it is expected to be completed by December 2025. Besides, Western Railway (WR) has achieved a physical progress of […]

The Government of Maharashtra inaugurated the Amalner-Beed section under the Ahmednagar-Beed-Parli Vaijnath Railway Line Project. The project involves the construction of a 261 km long rail line between Ahmednagar and Parli Vaijnath linking with Beed […]

The Central Railway (CR) has conducted its first trial of the Kavach system in the Solapur division. The trial covered a distance of 26 km, between the Dhavalas and Bhalwani stations, and tested several features, […]

The Union Government has inaugurated the Vande Bharat Express train service on the Jogbani-Danapur route. The train will cover a distance of 453 km in about eight hours, enhancing connectivity for the districts of Araria, […]

The Union Government inaugurated the Bhairabi-Sairang New Railway Line Project on September 13, 2025. The project involved laying of a 51 km long new broad gauge rail line between Bhairabi and Sairang connecting Assam and […]

The Central Railway (CR) has achieved a freight loading of 5.61 million tonnes (mt) in August 2025, marking a two per cent increase compared to the same period last year. Commodity wise, the zone registered […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat New Rail Line Doubling Project on September 10, 2025. The project involves doubling a 177-km long rail line from Bhagalpur to Rampurhat via Dumka in […]

National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has launched the 100 m long steel bridge of a 2×100 m long steel bridge over NH-48 under the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (HSR) Corridor Project. With this, nine […]

Indian Railways (IR) has achieved electrification of 69,154 route km (rkm) of its network, as of August 31, 2025. This constitutes 99.1 per cent of its cumulative broad gauge (BG) network of 69,800 rkm. Zone-wise, […]

Central Railway (CR) has inaugurated its first state-of-the-art unified Kavach control centre at the Bhusawal railway division. The centre will monitor the Kavach system across 134 locations within the division. It aims to enhance operational […]