GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has augmented the capacity of some passenger trains on permanent basis by adding various types of coaches. These passenger trains are presently running with full capacity.
Additional coaches will also enable more and more local people to travel in passenger trains thereby providing a low cost option of travelling in short distance destinations.
Details of all the additional coaches which have been added permanently during this month are given below:
One AC 3-tier coach has been added in the Guwahati – Silchar – Guwahati Fast passenger train from May, 2019. So 64 additional AC berths have been created.
Three general second class coaches have been added in the passenger, 55809 / 55810 passenger and 55817 / 55818 passenger trains running between New Bongaigaon and Guwahati from May 25. So, 270 numbers of additional seats are now available in these passenger trains.
Four General Second Class coaches have been added in the 55893 / 55894 passenger and 55895 / 55896 passenger trains running between Rangapara and Rangiya from May 25, 2019. 360 new seats are now additionally available in this trains.
Four general second Class coaches and one Luggage van have been added in the 55681 / 55682 passenger and 55683 / 55684 passenger trains running between Agartala and Garjee beginning from May 25 and 400 new seats are now additionally available for passengers of these trains.
One general second Class coache has been added in the 55679 / 55680 passenger train running between Agartala and Dharmanagar from May 25 and 90 seats are now additionally available for passengers of this train.
One AC 3-tier coach has been added in the 15715 / 15716 Kishanganj – Ajmer Garib Nawaj Express train from Kishanganj from May 14. So 64 additional AC berths are now available for passenger of this train.
One AC 3 tier coach has been added in the 15721 / 15722 New Jalpaiguri – Digha Express train from New Jalpaiguri May 17, so 64 additional AC berths are now available for passenger of this train.