By Admin 
Railway Added Extra Coaches: The problem of passengers is the biggest issue in the country at this time. After the halt of Indigo’s flight services, thousands of people are stranded and there are less options to travel long distances. The rates of other flights are skyrocketing. In such an environment, Railways showed promptness. From December 6, 2025, 116 extra coaches have been added to 37 trains across the network.
Due to which seats in trains have increased. Apart from this, Railways has further increased the capacity with 114 separate trips and has also rolled out four special trains. Due to this, the increased pressure due to flight cancellations will now be handled in a better way on trains and passengers will get another option for long distances. See in which trains the coaches were increased.
Maximum number of coaches were installed in Southern Railway
Indian Railways has increased the maximum number of coaches in Southern Railway. Southern Railway alone has installed chair car and sleeper class coaches in 18 trains. This system has come into effect from 6th December. Therefore, people traveling in South India are getting immediate relief. The demand for tickets had increased rapidly in the last few days and due to these new coaches, passengers will now get some relief.
Northern Railway also increased capacity
Talking about Northern Railway, here too the pressure of passengers was increasing and for this reason NR has added 3AC and chair car coaches in 8 trains. These changes have come into effect immediately. Due to this, seats have increased on important routes going towards Delhi, Punjab, Jammu and North-East. New coaches have been directly installed in trains like Jammu Tawi Rajdhani, Dibrugarh Rajdhani, Chandigarh Shatabdi and Amritsar Shatabdi. The timeline of coach edition for the scheduled days has also been released. Due to which passengers facing flight problems get an option.
Northern Railway increased the coaches of these trains for the convenience of passengers.
- A 3rd AC coach in Train No. 12425/26 Jammu Tawi Rajdhani Train
- Train No. 12424/23 Dibrugarh Rajdhani has a 3rd AC coach
- A coach of chair car in train no. 12045/46 Chandigarh Shatabdi train
- A chair car coach in train number 12030/29 Amritsar Shatabdi train
Extra coaches were added to these trains also
Railways has also implemented seat increase on the route from New Delhi to Jammu Tawi and back. An additional 3rd AC coach is being added in 12425 New Delhi to Jammu Tawi train from 6th December to 11th December. On the other hand, the same extra facility will be available in train 12426 Jammu Tawi coming from New Delhi from December 5 to December 12. This will significantly increase the chances of people traveling in both directions getting a confirmed seat.
Similarly, the Rajdhani route has also been expanded. 12424 Rajdhani from New Delhi to Dibrugarh will be added from 6th to 11th December. The same extra coach will run in return 12423 Rajdhani from Dibrugarh to Delhi from 8th to 13th December. Meaning, passengers going towards North East will also get more options in this peak travel window.
For Shatabdi route, train number 12029 New Delhi to Amritsar Shatabdi will have the facility of an extra chair car on 6th and 7th December. The same arrangement will be implemented in 12030 Shatabdi returning from Amritsar to New Delhi on the same two days. With this, the increased demand on the Delhi-Punjab corridor can be easily handled.
Four special trains started
Along with this, four special trains have also been announced. Vande Bharat Special for Gorakhpur to Anand Vihar, New Delhi to Jammu route, New Delhi – Mumbai Central Superfast Special and Hazrat Nizamuddin – Thiruvananthapuram Superfast Special trains are being started immediately.
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