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ER Launched ‘Krishak Special’ Trains For Farmers

Kolkata, Aug 12: The Eastern Railway from Thursday launched an exclusive train service named “Krishak Special” for the farmers in its suburban section on an experimental basis for the transportation of agricultural and perishable products. Two trains titled “Krishak Special” will run between Gede and Sealdah as well as between…


ER and SER’s Local Train Services Resumed

Kolkata, Nov. 11: The much awaited local train service from under the jurisdiction of the Eastern and the South Eastern Railways resumed on Wednesday morning after about eight months amid strict vigilance by police and railway authorities ensuring Covid safety protocols. However, the resumption of the service marked with low…



Shramik Speical Train Carrying Migrant Laborers Arrived In Krishnanagar

Krishnanagar, May 18: A Shramik Special train carrying 1123 stranded migrant labouers and tourists from Uttarakhand’s Haridwar arrived in Krishnagar junction railway station on Monday evening amidst tight security arrangement. The train had 1188 enlisted passengers, but some of them eventually did not boarded the train. The train left Haridwar…



Woman Stabbed Inside Sealdah Bound Train In Kalyani, Critical

Kalyani, Aug. 8: A young nurse was critically injured when a youth allegedly stabbed her indiscriminately for at least 18 times inside a compartment of a Sealdah bound local train on Thursday evening at Kalyani station when she protested against his traveling in the ladies compartment. The incident that once…


Avigyan’s ‘SAVE’ Can Stop Train If Driver Suffers Heart Attack

Kalyani, March 13: A class seven boy of Hooghly Collegiate School has developed a device that can automatically stop a running train to avert a possible accident in case the driver suffers a cardiac arrest and collapses being unconscious. Chinsura’s Avigyan Kishor Das’s device, titled “Safety and Alert for Vulnerable Emergency” (SAVE)…


Father Run Over In Khardah, Daughter’s Body Found In Ranaghat

Khardah, Dec. 3: Body of a six months old female child got entangled to the cow-catcher of the engine of a Lalgola bound EMU train and could be recovered around 54km away in Ranaghat after it hit her and her father while he was crossing railway tracks near Khardah railway…


Ranaghat Residents Demand Motorable Underpass, Blocked Trains

Ranghat, Aug. 4: Train services were disrupted for about three hours in Sealdah-Krishnanagar section under Sealdah North division of Eastern Railway during the peak hours of Saturday morning when a section of residents of Ranaghat backed by Trinamul Congress blocked railway tracks near Ranaghat station demanding an mtorable underpass connecting…