A parliamentary committee has criticized Indian Railways for slow train speeds, discrepancies in 'superfast' fares and inadequate punctuality standards.
One of India's biggest engineering marvels, the Konkan Railway completes 20 years today.
A new station at Sape-Wamne on the Konkan Railway will be operational from December 15.
The Konkan Railways boasts of a unique security system that relies on the karate skills of its employees.
The train services on Konkan Railway route resumed after torrential rains in the region triggered a major landslide in Ratnagiri sector of Maharashtra that threw traffic out of gear for nearly twelve hours, affecting scores of commuters.
Konkan Railway Corporation's public relations manager Baban Ghatge told PTI that work to clear the landslide has begun. "We are yet to know when the train traffic would resume," he said
Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were roped in to rescue hundreds of stranded people, they said.
Nearly 6,000 passengers were stranded as train services on the Konkan Railway route in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district were suspended on Thursday after a river overflowed following heavy rains, while incessant downpour badly hit road and rail traffic in several parts of the state, including around Mumbai, as authorities called in NDRF to help the administration in rescue efforts.
Among the new safety measures that the KRC is considering are an early-warning system for land-slides, inclinometres and anti-collision devices.
Railway sources said in a release that 50 persons were killed and 25 injured in the mishap and the figure was wrongly quoted as 51 as one body was counted twice in inter-hospital transfers.
Sixty injured passengers have been admitted to various hospitals at Oros, Ratnagiri, Kankavli (in Maharashtra) and in Goa.
KR cited the inordinate delays of trains running on the route owing to speed restrictions as the reason for this decision.
Aimed at 'decongesting' the traffic in populated cities, the project envisages the railway boogies running on elevated track set on a series of eight-metre-high pillars.
The statement by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) comes in the backdrop of collapse of under-construction Silkyara Tunnel in Uttarkashi on November 12.
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Vaishnaw on Saturday said he had ordered a high-level probe into the derailment on Friday night.
Local train services came to a halt between Badlapur and Ambarnath section in Maharashtra's Thane district adjoining Mumbai due to water-logging on railway tracks after heavy rains, officials said.
The Konkan region is witnessing incessant rains for the past three days which has resulted in the collapse of the protection wall, built recently.
Konkan Railways' Anti Collision Device is the first device of its kind in the world
The Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd has secured the government's approval to go ahead with its dream Skybus project, which had hit a roadblock following a fatal accident during a 2004 test run.
A lesson we have not learnt from China is the urgent need to knit the vast country together to keep it from falling apart at the seams. While there is considerable dent in poverty, sadly, the North East remains as distant today as it always was, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Konkan Railway Corporation's indigenous technologies- Sky Bus Metro and its self-stabilising track- have received the US patent making them globally-acceptable technologies.
Konkan Railways' 'Roll on-Roll off' service (Ro-Ro) is all set to make its presence felt in India with the Corporation requesting the railways ministry to extend the freight service all over the country.
The 1.3-kilometre-long bridge aims to boost connectivity to the Kashmir Valley and it is being constructed at a cost of Rs 1,486 crore as part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link project
A notification issued by the railway board in the evening said new fares would come into effect from May 5.
At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured when a passenger train derailed on Konkan Railway route in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Sunday.
The death toll in the train derailment in Maharashtra's Raigad district has gone up to 21 even as the traffic on the affected stretch was restored on Monday morning
Bharat Earth Movers Ltd and Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd signed a pact to manufacture sky-buses for the metro rail project in Goa.
At least ten passengers were "feared killed" and around 50 injured when a passenger train derailed on Konkan Railway route in Raigad district on Sunday.
Torrential rains in the Konkan region triggered a major landslide in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra on Tuesday morning. The landslide delayed trains and caused major inconvenience to scores of commuters who were heading to Konkan for the upcoming Ganesh festival. Public Relations Manager of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited Baban Ghatge told PTI that a landslide near Pomendi in Ratnagiri district has resulted in the delay of several trains on the route.
IRCTC will work on Kisan Yatra, a special travel scheme to help farmers to learn about new farming and marketing technique.
The train accident, which claimed the lives of 60 people in West Bengal on Monday, has once again brought about the talk of the installation of anti-collision devices on trains.
Implemented by Konkan Railway, telemedicine project is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide health care when distance separates medical specialists from the patient. It also includes educational use of these technologies such as distance learning of health subjects.
Major rivers in Ratnagiri district, including Jagbudi, Vashishti, Kodavali, Shastri, Bav are flowing above the danger level. As a result, Khed, Chiplun, Lanja, Rajapur, Sangameshwar towns and nearby areas have been affected and residents are being shifted to safer places.
Giving a new poll slogan of 'Khel Zatlo' in Goa, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said an anti-BJP alliance has already taken shape in the coastal state under the banner of her party TMC and now it is for the Congress to decide whether it wants to join the grouping ahead of elections to take on the saffron outfit.
The Konkan Railway will run special trains between suburban Bandra Terminus to Madgaon, Goa to clear the rush during the Ganeshutsav on August 21 and 29, a railway official said on Thursday.
The Coast Guard has deployed a Chetak Helicopter to carry out search operation for missing vehicles.
There were no reports of damage to life or property following the tremor which had its epicenter in the Koyna dam region in Satara district.
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