Two Tejas Trains To Resume Services From Monday
Lucknow, February 14 (TNA) The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is going to resume operations of the first set of "private" Tejas Express trains on the Delhi-Lucknow and Mumbai Ahmedabad routes from Monday.
The trains which will be restarted, after their cancellation on November 2019 due to low occupancy and hazards of Coronavirus, are Mumbai Central-Ahmedabad and the other one being between New Delhi and Lucknow.
Officials say that now once the market has turned around and the Corona graph seems to be on the ebb, the Tejas train, which has AC chair car and executive AC chair car coach, will run regularly from Friday to Monday each week.
Passengers can book tickets on the IRCTC website. This Tejas train from Mumbai to Ahmedabad will leave Mumbai Central at 3:50 pm and reach Ahmedabad at 10:05 pm the same day.
Return train leaves Ahmedabad at 6:40 AM and reaches Mumbai Central at 1:05 PM the same day. It will stop at Borivali, Vapi, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara and Nadiad stations in both directions.
IRCTC had launched Lucknow-Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express on October 4, 2019 and Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Ahmedabad on January 19, 2020.
Mumbai Central-Ahmedabad train will stop at Andheri station at 3:56 pm and depart at 3:58 pm while return train will stop at the station at 12:28 pm and depart at 12:30 pm.
The same second Tejas, Lucknow-New Delhi Express is also resuming its operations from Sunday, but there has been no change in its timing.
The services of both trains were halted on March 19, 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic and the ensuing lockdown.