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Railways announces daily Delhi-Darbhanga special for Diwali and Chhath rush
Railways announces daily Delhi-Darbhanga special for Diwali and Chhath rush
Indian Railways will run a daily special train between New Delhi and Darbhanga from October 10 to November 25 to handle the pre-Diwali and Chhath rush. Train 04098 departs Delhi at 9:30…
Indian Railways will run a daily special train between New Delhi and Darbhanga from October 10 to November 25 to handle the pre-Diwali and Chhath rush. Train 04098 departs Delhi at 9:30 am and reaches Darbhanga at noon the next day, taking about 26½ hours. The return service, train 04097, starts October 11 and runs until November 26, leaving Darbhanga at 3 pm.
The special will stop at Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Bettiah, Motihari, Muzaffarpur and Samastipur among other stations. It has 24 coaches. Passengers must verify the timings and berth availability on IRCTC or the National Train Enquiry System, as festival specials can see last-minute changes.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Festival season specials are an annual exercise by Indian Railways to absorb the surge of passengers travelling for Chhath Puja and Diwali, when waitlisted tickets on key routes routinely run into thousands. The 04098/04097 pair adds one daily round trip on the Delhi-Darbhanga sector, but that single train will not resolve the larger shortfall: during peak weeks, Bihar-bound demand can approach five lakh passengers a day from Delhi alone, against just over two lakh confirmed berths. The practical constraint is the train's advertised capacity of 24 coaches, roughly 1,500 berths per trip. Railways may yet announce additional duplicate or triplicate specials closer to the dates if the waitlist data crosses its threshold for intervention.
Source: businesstoday.in
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