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Govt plans 14 new trains

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government proposes to introduce 14 new trains this year.

Railway Minister Nitish Kumar disclosed this while presenting the Railway Budget today. The new trains are:

Madras-Tirupati Shatabdi Express
Shalimar-Haldia Intercity Express
Secunderabad-Machilipatnam Express
Bombay-Sawantwadi-Madgaon Intercity Express
Kurla-Patna Superfast Express (biweekly)
Amritsar-Darbhanga Express via Secunderabad (biweekly)
Jaipur-Bangalore Express via Secunderabad (biweekly)
Guwahati-Madras Express (biweekly)
Delhi-Gandhidham Express (biweekly)
Delhi-Coimbatore Express (weekly)
Pune-Ernakulam Express (weekly)
Raichur-Gulbarga Intercity Service
Kamakhya-New Bongaigaon Passenger
Patna-Mughalasari Passenger via Gaya.

The minister also announced that the frequency of four express trains would be increased.

Howrah-Purulia Express will run daily instead of the present six days a week.

The frequency of Bangalore-Visakhapatnam Express will be increased from two days a week to four days a week.

The Pune-Ahmedabad Ahimsa Express will be increased from three days to four days a week.

Kurla-Howrah Super Deluxe Express will now run three days a week instead of once a week.

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