Double-decker services announced between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

50 new suburban services for Kolkata.

Nine additional services to be run in Chennai.

Women get concession, men added charges: Women aged 58 onwards to be eligible for senior citizen’s travel concession. The age limit was 60 earlier.

Concession for senior citizen men, though, will be reduced by 10 %.

Physically handicapped to get concession in Rajdhani and Shatabdi. They were not eligible for it earlier.

Railways announces plan to strengthen suburban network of Hyderabad, Secunderabad.

Kolkata metro to expand, Mamata announces.

16,000 ex-servicemen to be inducted into Railways by year-end.

Online ticketing charge reduced from Rs 20 to Rs 10 for AC and from Rs 10 to Rs 5 for non-AC.

She introduces ‘Go India Fast Card’, a single-window ticket for passengers.

12000 acres will be provided for the East-West freight corridor.

Mamata also announces upgradation plans for 584 stations. 442 of these will be completed by March 2012.

States where no accidents occur will get two special trains each.

Mamata announces doubling expenditure on gauge conversion. She also announces that anti-collision devices will be commissioned in three months.

Tax-free bonds for 100 billion rupees to be issued by Indian Railway Finance Corporation in 2011/12.

She announces that the annual plan outlay for 2011-12 will be Rs 57630 crores.

A suburban railways pilot scheme will help set up shelters for the homeless.

She also announces a coach factory to be set up in Palakkad, Kerala.

First coach from Rae Bareli coach factory, which was announced last year, will roll out in three months.

New railway line capacity to be increased to 700 km.

700 MW captive gas-based power plant planned for railways in Maharashtra.

85 proposals to involve public-private partnership.

She announces a special software unit in Darjeeling.

Nandigram in West Bengal will get an Industrial Park.

A metro coach factory in Kolkata has also been announced.

PNR Status Enquiry indian railways

Passenger Current Status

Enter the PNR for your booking below to get the current status. You will find it on the top left corner of the ticket.

Online PNR Status Enquiry

Online PNR Status Enquiry will be available from 04:00 hrs to 23:00 hrs. IST

Please fill your 10 digit PNR Number, which is printed on the top left corner of the ticket.

http://www.serailway.gov.in/kgp/PNR.htm

NOTE: PNR Status Check is usually very slow. It might not even work, sometimes.

http://indiarailinfo.com/pnr

The passengers can get a cash back between 12% and 14% on Indian Railway tour packages if the tickets are booked through the website of Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The cash back offer is valid only for bookings made upto Tuesday, November 30, 2010.

The offer is valid for Indian citizens who are retail customers and hold a SBI or Tata card. The cash back offer is valid on packages booked using any SBI master card through IRCTC and rail tourism websites.

For availing the offer, railway bookings have to be made at the website of www.railtourismindia.com. The cash back is calculated on the following basis: 12% per cent cash back on total transaction value of tickets upto Rs 7,500 and 14% cash back on tickets above Rs.7500.

Guwahati Express Train No: 2510 (From Bangalore to Guwahati)

Guwahati Express Train No: 2509 (From Bangalore to Guwahati)

Guwahati Express Train Schedules (Train No: 2510): Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (From Bangalore to Guwahati)

Guwahati Express Train Schedules (Train No: 2509): Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (From Bangalore to Guwahati)

Guwahati Express Train Arrival: 11:50 (Arrival Bangalore)

Guwahati Express Train Departure: 23:30 (Departure Bangalore)

Timing are subject to change without notice

For Reservation Status: Dial 139 followed by 10 Digit PNR Number

Arrival and Departure information: Dial 139 followed by 4 Digit Train Number

Accomodation availability

Dial 139 followed by Train Number 4 Digit, date of journey 4 Digit (date and month), Other enquiries – Dial 139

IRCTC Online Passenger Reservation System

IRCTC’s Online Passenger Reservation System provides booking facility of Railway tickets online and offers other services like checking reservation status, train schedules, train routes, availability of tickets and cancellation.

You may contact IRCTC

You may contact IRCTC at :
For Doubts/Queries/Complaints/Appreciations regarding bookings/services
24 Hrs. Customer Support at
011-23340000,
MON – SAT(10 AM – 6 PM),
011-23344787,
011-23345800,
Chennai Customer Care No.
044-25300000 or
For Railway tickets booked through IRCTC
General Information I-tickets/e-tickets: care@irctc.co.in
For Cancellation E-tickets : etickets@irctc.co.in
For Shubhyatra users shubhyatra@irctc.co.in
For Mumbai Suburban Season tickets seasontickets@irctc.co.in
Registered Office / Corporate Office :
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd.,
9th Floor, Bank of Baroda Building,
16, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110001.
Tel: 011-23311263/011-23311264
Fax: 011-23311259

IRCTC online railway booking at http://www.irctc.co.in/

New Delhi, February 24, 2010: Mamata Banerjee presentation of Railway Budget 2010 by delivering a good news to the country.

- Port Blair to Diglipur connection proposed

- Special benefits to help Cancer patients. Free tickets to AC3 and sleeper class

- India’s religious, spiritual, pilgrimage hotspots to be connected with ‘Bharat Teertha’ trains

- Express train service between and Ahmedabad and Udhampur

- Tagore anniversary: Special train between India and Bangladesh

- Kolkata metro station to be revamped

- Special train in the name of Tagore to commemorate 150h birth anniversary (Himalaya to Kanyakumari, Madhuri to Patna routes among others)

- Western corridor pact with Japan by Mar 2010

- More ‘Matribhumi’ Ladies Special trains to be introduced

- New Train services focus on Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal and other North Eastern neighboring regions

- Austerity drive helped Railways save Rs 20,000 cr

- Budget estimates:
*Rs 113 crore for passenger amenity
*FY 11 Pension fund at Rs 14,500 crore
*Rs 6,490 cr net revenue revised estimate for FY10
*Revenue from non-crore business to go up from Rs 150 crore to Rs 1000 crore
*Rs 4,411 cr for new rail lines

- A dedicated passenger corridor proposed called the Golden Rail Corridor project

- A member of the family which loses land to railway projects will be given employment

- AC service charge cut to Rs 20

- Mumbai gets 101 new suburban trains

- Tourist trains on 16 routes

- 10 more Duronto trains announced

- Proposed diesel plant for West Bengal again invites ire of Opposition

- 22. 6 billion CFL lights distributed free of cost in a bid to take part in the green campaign to save ‘Mother Earth’ from climate change

- New coach factories specialised in making coaches with refrigeration facilities to carry agriculture produce

- Kharagpur to get a Railway research center

- Railways examination centre in Bangalore

- 54 new trains in 2010-2011

- Security continues on top, Mamata promises to man all unmanning railway crossing in a span of five years

- Anti collision devises and better traffic control systems

- Women employees to benefit from special schemes proposed to ‘take care’ of their children

- 60 creches and 20 hostels for children of women railway employees

- Rabindra Museum at Howrah to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Rabindra Tagore

- Railways promises to set up five sports academies

- Special trains for Commonwealth Games 2010

- Speaks about Lata Mangeskar’s song for those who laid their lives for India and invites applause from the house

- Ex-servicemen to be used for railway security

- Housing scheme for 14 lakh Rail employees

- Freight rates remain unchanged

- Security of passengers a challenge. Railway Protection Force (RPF) power limited and state governments should also take responsibility for law and order problems

- Ticket centres at district headquarters and village panchayats

- E-ticketing mobile vans at hospitals and educational universities

- Services and amenities for women, minorities and the physically challenged

- 117 new trains will be on the tracks within 7 months

- Proposal to set up 6 bottling plants in order to provide clean water to commuters

- Izzat scheme, concession schemes implemented

- Work on multi functional complexes underway

- Minister promises 1,000 km new railway line in one year

- Connectivity priority but funds are insufficient

- Invitation to business community to take part in Railway projects

- Establishment of special task force to look into project delays

- Need to develop new business model and bring in domestic investment through PPP (Public Private Partnership)

- No privatisation of the Railways but business module required to arm the revenue

- Private investment clearance in 100 days

- Railway Budget 2010 formulated on social responsibility

- The minister first speaks on the Vision 2010 document.

Guwahati Express/2509 (Bangalore Guwahati Express Train Number 2509)

Departure: Departs from Bangalore City Junction/SBC @ 23:30: Platform# 3. Wednesday,Thursday,Friday

Arrival: Arrives Guwahati/GHY @ 05:50 +3 nights: Platform# 1. Sunday,Monday,Saturday

Guwahati Bangalore Express/2510 (Guwahati Bangalore Express Train Number 2510)

Departure: Guwahati/GHY Departs @ 06:30: Sunday,Monday,Tuesday. Platform# 1

Arrival: Bangalore City Junction/SBC Arrives @ 11:50 +2 nights. Platform# 20. Tueday,Wednesday,Thursday

SMS Services

Ticket Availability
Sms TRNAV to 54959

PNR Status
Sms PNR <10-digit PNR No.> to 54959

Indian Railway introduced the simplest way to check your Railway ticket status using SMS messages. Just send an SMS on 57886 through your mobile phone now to get any information on Railways.

Now all the enquiries like Train Alert, PNR Status, Train Status, Seat Availability, Train Schedule, Train Information, Train Time Table, Train Fare etc offered on the web site www.indianrail.gov.in are available on your mobile phone through SMS facility. For more information on the mobile service providers and the key words to be used on the mobile.

Make sure to visit the official site http://www.indianrail.gov.in and double-check the timetable.

Bangalore-Guwahati Express

Bangalore-Guwahati Express runs between Bangalore City Junction Railway Station in Karnataka and Guwahati Junction Railway Station in Assam. This train touches the cities of Chennai, Ongole, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Howrah and Kishanganj. It covers a distance of 3,021 km.

Bangalore-Guwahati Express fares:

Class IIA – Rs 2555.00
Class IIIA – Rs 1616.00
Class SL – Rs 585.00

Guwahati Express/2509

Guwahati Bangalore Express/2510

Indian Railways new enquiry number : 138

Indian Railways existing passenger inquiry number : 139

The 138 number is also expected to take the load off the existing 139 passenger inquiry number, which receives as many as 8 lakh calls everyday.

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