PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Nov 16: South Eastern Railway ( SER) has decided that all mail and express specials and holiday specials originating and terminating over its jurisdiction and were running during the Covid-19 pandemic period will now be operated as regular trains with their respective old numbers of pre-Covid period.
The train numbers now will not start with Zero, as was in the case of special trains.
The process for conversion of special train numbers to regular train numbers has already been started by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) and is expected to be completed within the next seven days.
Notably, all trains running during the last one-and-half year of the Covid-19 induced pandemic were special trains. As many as 45 special trains were running under South Eastern Railway’s jurisdiction in Jharkhand.
