Bilaspur
Railways has given great relief to the common passengers traveling in express trains. On the instructions of the Railway Board, four general coaches have been added to 16 trains of the South East Central Railway zone.
Earlier there used to be only two coaches. Due to which passengers faced problems. With the new arrangement, each train now has 400 seats. In this respect, 6400 seats have increased in the zone. This is also providing relief to the passengers. If we talk about any railway station of the zone including Bilaspur, most of the passengers travel there by taking general tickets. But, due to shortage of coaches, they either had to cancel the journey or pay extra fare to reach their destination by sleeper coach. Because of this, passengers had to face problems.
Especially those passengers traveling with their families have to face a lot of problems. The railway administration has taken this problem of passengers seriously and decided to solve it. Now the problems of general passengers in trains leaving from the zone have gone away.
Railways has increased the number of general coaches in almost all trains to four. When this decision was taken, a target was set to add four general coaches in all trains by November, which has now been accomplished.
Comfort for sleeper coach passengers
When there was brainstorming on the issue of solving this problem, it came to light that increasing the number of general coaches would provide relief not only to general but also to sleeper passengers. In fact, if there is no space in the general coach, the passengers are forced to board the sleeper coach. Due to this there used to be disputes every day.
Keeping this in mind, it has been decided to increase the number of coaches by one. These trains already have one general coach each, which is attached at the front and rear of the train. Now two front and two rear general coaches have been added.
Facility of four coaches in these trains
Bilaspur- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Itwari Express
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose- Korba Express
Bilaspur- Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
Bilaspur- Bikaner Express
Korba-Amritsar Express
Bilaspur-Patna Express
Bilaspur-Ernakulam Express
Durg- Nizamuddin Express
Durg- MCTM Udhampur Express
Durg- Bhopal Express0 Durg- Navtanwa Express
Durg- Kanpur Express0 Durg- Ajmer Express
Durg ACTM Udhampur Express0 Durg- Navtanwa Express
Durg- Ajmer Express five 21 and 11 trains are running with 22 coaches.
Trains in which four general coaches have been increased. Five of them are running with 21 coaches. The number of coaches in 11 trains has increased to 22. There is so much scope in these trains that two additional coaches can be added. The maximum number of coaches of trains is only 24. The platforms of the stations are constructed accordingly.