Railways increase Devlali-Muzaffarpur `Kisan Rail’ frequency to tri-weekly
07 Sep 2020
The Railways has announced an increase in the frequency of Devlali-Muzaffarpur `Kisan Rail’ to thrice a week with effect from 8 September from twice a week following a spike in demand. Loading of agricultural produce has also increased almost four-fold since the inaugural run.
Giving this information in a press communiqué issued yesterday, the Central Railway said that it would also increase the frequency of `Link Kisan Rail’ from bi-weekly to tri-weekly between Sangola and Manmad which will be attached/detached to Devlali-Muzaffarpur Kisan Rail at Manmad.
Accordingly, 00107/00108 Devlali-Muzaffarpur-Devlali Kisan Rail will depart Devlali at 18.00 hrs as at present on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 8 September 2020 to 25 September 2020 and reach Muzaffarpur Jn at 04.45 hrs on the third day, while the return service will depart Muzaffarpur Jn at 08.00 hrs on every Thursday, Saturday and Monday from 10 September 2020 to 27 September 2020 and will arrive Manmad at 13.00 hrs on next day.
The train will have 5 parcel vans from Devlali.
The train will halt at Nashik Road (only for 00107), Manmad, Jalgaon (only for 00107), Bhusaval, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Harda, Itarsi, Pipariya (for 00107 only), Gadarwara (for 00107 only), Narsinghpur (for 00107 only), Jabalpur, Katni, Satna, Manikpur, Prayagraj Chheoki, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Jn, Buxar and Danapur.
The 00109/00110 Sangola-Manmad-Daund (Tri-weekly) Link Kisan Rail will depart Sangola at 08.00 hrs on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 8 September 2020 to 25 September 2020 and reach Manmad at 18.30 hrs same day, while the return service will depart Manmad at 14.00 hrs on every Friday, Sunday and Tuesday from 11 September 2020 to 28 September 2020 and arrive Daund at 18.15 hrs same day.
The train will halt at Pandharpur, Kurduwadi, Daund, Belvandi, Ahmednagar (for 00110) , Belapur and Kopergaon.
The loading of Kisan Rail on inaugural day (7 August 2020) was 90.92 tonnes, 99.91 tonnes on 14 August and 235.44 tonnes on 21 August. The frequency was increased to bi-weekly from 25 August when loading was 273.74 tonnes; 277.64 tonnes on 28 August and 354.29 tonnes on 1 September. Now, with increase in frequency, the trend of increase in loading is also expected to increase, the release added.