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Apr 10 (13:38)   22406/Anand Vihar Terminal - Bhagalpur Garib Rath Express (PT)
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Maiden LHB run of bhagalpur Garib rath Express
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All Garibrath trains with 3E class and 20 coaches with a total capacity of 1600 shall be operated on at least 20 high density routes on daily basis. Like ANVT - Bhagalpur, Anvt - patna, etc. All garibrath can be converted to daily trains to improve passenger services and clearing waitlist passengers. The per passenger km fare to be increased to 1.2 rupees so that it can be self sustaining for Indian Railways
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Apr 09 (13:19)   VSKP/Visakhapatnam Junction (8 PFs)
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Tentative timings for DURG - VSKP - DURG Vande Bharat Express
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Too many stops and made it like a passenger or mail. For VB, minimum average speed must be 80 kmph and all VBs in future to stick to this rule. The number of intermediate stops could be rationalised to achieve that average speed. Otherwise, ICE is better option or Jan Satabdhi.
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I remember a lot of people used to mention how Sleeper and General class were loss makers and needed to be terminated as a whole.

What do y'all think about this? Loss making VBs. Some times ago I also made a post about how useless Bhopal - Indore VB was and Sampoorna Kranti's unreserved class was making more revenue than that of Bhopal - Indore VB.
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Clearly, Indian Railways and the Government are also at fault for Railway's loss making nature and not just some exclusive classes like SL or GS.

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Comparison of the two decades old Satabdhi btw Ndls and Bhopal, Four decade old Bengaluru Rajdhani with one year old VB (NDLS - Bhopal I presume), and comparing economics is too premature. Benefits from VB: (1) Around 102 VB services added 1 lakh AC seats for Indian travellers. (2) Instead of travelling overnight, one can return by night or reach by afternoon, this saves hotel stay for biz travellers (3) VB trains on an average occupancy of even at 70 percent will be a good start. (4) We are used to travel with waiting lists, booking 3 months before train travel, etc and VB gives an option to book with confirmation now for next day travel in most sectors (5) Suppose another 150 VB services are introduced, which will eliminate waitlist at least for medium distance travel by March 2025. (6) Indian Railways says they lose 55 percent in passenger travel...
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as per 2017-18 data, but passenger services are giving revenue of 80000 crores in current financial year 2024-25, compared to 50,000 crores in 2017-18, and obviously the losses from passenger services are down from 50,000 crores in 2017-18 to around 20,000 crores in current financial year. (7) Introduction of VBs definitely decreased the stress on the long distance trains mainly in AC 2 and 3 tier classes and made them available for long distance travellers

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Apr 07 (18:14)
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I agree with the point that SL and GS are not the only classes for all IR losses. I hv done lot of analysis on different classes of travel. VB revenue will definitely bring some fillip to IR revenues, in short run and in long run will get transformed to one of the mode of travel. Politicians are unable to rationalise fares in SL and GS, suburban trains. Hope the fares will get to actual cost levels in next 5 years
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Apr 07 (10:03)   20173/Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) - Rewa Vande Bharat Express | BPL/Bhopal Junction (6 PFs)
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vande bharat express news
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Comparison of the two decades old Satabdhi btw Ndls and Bhopal, Four decade old Bengaluru Rajdhani with one year old VB (NDLS - Bhopal I presume), and comparing economics is too premature. The operational cost of VB is double of Satabdhi, which is incorrect. Again, rajdhani express is more revenue generating as it's a long distance train. Benefits from VBs are (1) Around 102 VB services added 1 lakh AC seats for Indian travellers. (2) Instead of travelling overnight, one can return by night or reach by afternoon, this saves hotel stay for biz travellers (3) VB trains on an average occupancy of even at 70 percent will be a good start. (4) We are used to travel with waiting lists, booking 3 months before train travel, etc and VB gives an option to book with confirmation now for next day travel in most sectors (5) Suppose another 150 VB...
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services are introduced, which will eliminate waitlist at least for medium distance travel by March 2025. (6) Indian Railways says they lose 55 percent in passenger travel as per 2017-18 data, but passenger services are giving revenue of 80000 crores in current financial year 2024-25, compared to 50,000 crores in 2017-18, and obviously the losses from passenger services are down from 50,000 crores in 2017-18 to around 20,000 crores in current financial year. (7) Introduction of VBs definitely decreased the stress on the long distance trains mainly in AC 2 and 3 tier classes and made them available for long distance travellers

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Indian Railway earn 1229 crore Ruppe from WL/Canceled ticket. This money is hard earn money of poor peoples and without any use they paid 1229 crore rupee which must stop by govt.
this is unethecally earned money by Railway.
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25 Public Posts - Thu Mar 21, 2024

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IR has seen cancellation of around 1.4 lakhs of tickets per day in 2023, which are automatically cancelled and around average Rs. 100 per cancellation is recovered by IR. This may not even include payment gateway charges.

One, IR has to provide at least double of these seats in 3 years to bring down the waitlist cancellations to a minimum. There can never be zero waitlisted cancellations.
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In each train, depending on the class and type of train, there are seats set aside till chart preparation. These include for Railway staff, MP or MLA bookings, etc. etc.. These can be released one day prior i.e., at the time of opening Tatkal seats to public one day prior at 10 am for AC class and 11 am for Sleeper class tickets. This will help reduce the waitlist cancellations as people keep in the hope of those set aside reserved seats which are released on chart preparation.

To curtail around 1.5 lakh cancellations on any day, we need 300 new trains introduced with average berth capacity of 1000 per train. These have to be introduced permanently as Daily trains in all high density corridors, by identifying 60 to 80 such corridors on permanent basis.

Introduction of VB trains is supposed to bring down waitlist but it has in fact increased in 2023 compared to 2022, that means there is higher cancellations in Overnight and long distance travel. So VB trains are acting more as capacity enhancement for IR and the passengers from other Road and Air Transport are using these services than regular train passengers.

So we need around 300 Amrit Bharat and long distance SF daily trains to bring down the waitlist menace in iR.

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