Nearly 1.5 Lakh Tickets Booked In 2 Hours For Trains Starting 1 June

Within two hours of opening the bookings for the 100 pairs of passenger trains that the railways will operationalise on 1 June, almost 1.50 lakh tickets were booked, railway officials told PTI.

On Wednesday, railways issued a list of 100 pairs of trains that it will operate from 1 June. The list included popular trains such as Durontos, Sampark Krantis, Jan Shatabdis and Poorva Express.

This is the second slew of special passenger services that marked the Railways graded restoration of its trains which were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"At 12:00 Hours, 73 trains were available in the system for booking. 1,49,025 tickets were booked having 2,90,510 passengers," said a railway spokesperson told PTI.

These trains will have both AC and non-AC classes and fully reserved coaches.

The railways said these trains will be "special trains run on the pattern of regular trains", covering tier 2 cities and also major state capitals like Mumbai and Kolkata.

Officials said from now on, all such special trains will have both these categories to accommodate all classes of passengers.