Overview
- Indian Railways augmented 37 trains with 116 additional coaches for 114 trips, with most deployments taking effect from December 6 across multiple zones.
- Officials estimate capacity for roughly 4,000 passengers per trip and about 35,000 passengers per day through the augmented services.
- Central Railway announced six special trains on December 6–7 on routes including Pune–SMVT Bengaluru, Pune–New Delhi, LTT–Madgaon, CSMT–New Delhi, LTT–Lucknow, and Nagpur–CSMT.
- Additional reserved specials include Gorakhpur–Anand Vihar trips December 7–9, a New Delhi–Jammu Vande Bharat on December 6, New Delhi–Mumbai services on December 6–7, and a one-way H Nizamuddin–Thiruvananthapuram run on December 6.
- Zone-wise boosts include Southern Railway’s 18 trains, Northern’s eight and Western’s four, plus targeted additions on corridors such as Rajendra Nagar–New Delhi (Dec 6–10), Bhubaneswar–New Delhi, Eastern Railway services (Dec 7–8), and Northeast Frontier trips (Dec 6–13), with more AC specials under consideration as demand persists while IndiGo targets a roughly 10-day recovery window.