By Admin 
After the cancellation of flights of IndiGo and many other airlines across the country, lakhs of passengers suddenly flocked to the Railways. In view of the increasing crowd and huge demand for tickets, Indian Railways has taken immediate action. From December 6, 2025, Railways has implemented the decision to install additional coaches and run additional trips on many routes. Due to this, passengers have started getting huge relief.
The biggest impact of flight cancellations was seen in South India, where the Railways made special preparations to increase capacity. Southern Railway has installed new coaches in 18 trains. Additional seats were made available to passengers by increasing the number of sleeper and chair cars on many popular routes. Due to this, travel to cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram has started becoming smooth again.
Northern Railway reduces congestion on Delhi route
Due to the highest number of passengers traveling to and from Delhi, Northern Railway installed additional AC and chair cars in 8 main trains. This change has been implemented with immediate effect. Due to this, passengers of Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are getting special relief.
Big initiative of Western Railway on Delhi-Mumbai route
Due to cancellation of flights, travel between Delhi and Mumbai had become very difficult. Keeping this in view, Western Railways has added 3AC and 2AC coaches in 4 major trains. After the implementation of the new system from December 6, thousands of passengers have started getting seats on this busy route.
Relief on Bihar-Delhi route too, ECR increased AC seats
East Central Railway has taken special steps for the passengers going from Patna to Delhi. Five additional trips are being run in Rajendra Nagar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express from 6 to 10 December. Along with this, the number of 2AC coaches in the train has also been increased, due to which the pressure on the seats on Patna-Delhi route has been reduced the most.
East Coast, Eastern and NFR also increased capacity
For passengers going from Odisha to Delhi, East Coast Railway has added 2AC coaches in trains number 20817, 20811 and 20823 in 5 trips. On the other hand, Eastern Railway has increased sleeper coaches in three main trains on 7th and 8th December. For North-East passengers, Northeast Frontier Railway has made a big increase in 3AC and sleeper seats with eight additional trips between December 6 and 13.
Railways also ran four special trains
To rescue stranded passengers and make long distance travel easier, Railways has run 4 special trains. These include Gorakhpur–Anand Vihar Special, New Delhi–Mumbai Central Special, Vande Bharat Special for New Delhi–Srinagar region and Hazrat Nizamuddin–Thiruvananthapuram Special. Many trains were one-way, whose purpose was only to provide relief to the passengers.
Why was this decision of Railways necessary?
After the cancellation of flights, the way the demand for tickets suddenly increased manifold, people in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Patna got worried. At such a time, this step of the Railways has proved to be very important, because the availability of thousands of additional seats provided a safe option to the passengers.
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