tejas express

Over 250 new Vande Bharat sleeper trains are in the pipeline for rollout over the next few years - all with the aim to revamp long-distance rail travel and offer a world-class service experience to passengers.

The much-awaited tejas express, which boasts several modern facilities on-board like LED TV and tea, coffee vending machine, will be flagged off today from Mumbai to Goa by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.

If you’re planning to travel home from Delhi by tejas express ahead of Diwali, be prepared to fork out the small fortune you’d normally pay for a plane journey.

The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a public sector undertaking of the Ministry of Railways, has decided to cancel the operation of Ahmedabad-Mumbai tejas express from November 24.

In another first, giving a fillip to environment conservation, tejas express is serving ‘biodegradable’ packaged drinking water bottles to its passengers.

The online ticket booking window for Lucknow-New Delhi tejas express (82501/02), the much-awaited and first corporatised train of Indian Railways, started on Friday night. Bookings for the inaugural run from Lucknow on October 4, however, began late on Friday evening. The fare around 7pm was Rs 1,125.

Konkan Railway will restart Mumbai-Karmali (Goa) tejas express from July 10. An official said train 02119 Mumbai CSMT-Karmaliwill leave from CSMT at 5.50am every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from July 10 to reach Karmali at 4pm.

Passenger on tejas express finds worm in upma served on Mumbai-bound train. Priyen Shah, a manager, expresses shock and calls out authorities. Incident reported in C-7 coach, attendants served upma, soft drink, and curd. Worm discovered halfway through eating upma. Shah contacts general manager, complaint registered but closed with promise of increased caution. Shah questions responsibility for health risk.

The Indian Rail Catering Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has imposed a hefty fine of Rs 1 lakh on a catering firm which served dinner on tejas express between Karmali in the Konkan and CSMT on Saturday evening. The food included vegetable pulao, which was found to be "stale"; the vegetables were "stinking"

About 24 passengers of Karmali-CST tejas express fell ill on Sunday after consuming breakfast served by on-board pantry car operator.

Due to increase in demand, Western Railway has decided to increase the frequency of Mumbai Central – Ahmedabad tejas express from 4 days in a week to 5 days in a week from December 22.

Passengers of IRCTC's Delhi-Lucknow tejas express will be compensated in case of delays, the Railway subsidiary said on Tuesday. An amount of Rs 100 will be paid in case the delay is for over an hour and Rs 250 for delays for over two hours. This offer is in addition to the Rs 25-lakh free insurance given to Tejas passengers which will be the IRCTC's first.

With the Christmas holidays and New Year festivities around the corner and being the preferred train on the busy Ahmedabad-Mumbai route, IRCTC has decided to run the tejas express on Wednesday also in addition to Friday, Saturday Sunday, and Monday, the official said.

Some 630 passengers of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai tejas express are eligible to get compensation of Rs 100 each, after the train was delayed by more than 80 minutes while on its way to Mumbai Central on Wednesday.

A week after the DMK emerged as the third largest party in the Lok Sabha, party veteran and Sriperumbudur MP, T R Baalu, has shot off a letter to the Railway Board chairman demanding that the Chennai-Madurai tejas express stop at Tambaram, which falls in his constituency.

Railways is focusing on introducing premium trains, but lack of consistent maintenance of onboard amenities continues to mar travel experience on elite services like tejas express.

The tejas express, which had its inaugural run from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to Karmali on Monday, will also be deployed on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu, who was in city to flag it off, announced.

Rail journeys are set to become faster and more enjoyable as BJP government’s flagship train service, tejas express, which boasts of on-board modern facilities such as LED TV and tea or coffee vending machine, is expected to be launched from Mumbai for Goa on Monday.

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will restore the operations of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central-Ahmedabad tejas express from August 7.

Due to an increase in demand, Western Railway has decided to increase the frequency of Mumbai Central – Ahmedabad tejas express from 4 days in a week to 5 days in a week from December 22.

Low occupancy and mass cancellations has hit Indian railways' first private train, Lucknow-New Delhi tejas express as well.

Lucknow-New Delhi tejas express, the first corporatised train of Indian Railways, will begin operation from October 4. The train, in all likelihood, will be flagged off by chief minister Yogi Adityanath. On the inaugural day, the train would not run on its scheduled time from Lucknow.

Indian Railway Catering And Tourism Corporation Limited has decided to resume the services of tejas express, five days a week, from Friday.IRCTC said that with restrictions easing due to the number of Covid cases reducing, they decided to resume tejas express services.

The second tejas express in the country — from Ahmedabad to Mumbai — will be flagged off by the Union railway and commerce minister Piyush Goyal and Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani from Ahmedabad today. It will run simultaneously in the opposite direction to Shatabdi express. The commercial run of the train will start from Sunday from Ahmedabad, the railways said.

The Ahmedabad-Mumbai tejas express was flagged off from here on Friday by Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani, becoming the second semi high-speed train to be run by Railway subsidiary IRCTC. The train departed from Ahmedabad at 10.45am and will reach Mumbai in six-and-a-half hours.

The Delhi-Lucknow tejas express is set to be the first train to be operated by private players, indicating that the Railways is going ahead with its 100-day agenda of handing over operations of two of its trains to the private sector, despite protests from its unions. The train will be handed over to private players after an open bidding process for operationalisation.

Passengers of IRCTC's Delhi-Lucknow tejas express will be compensated in case of delays, the Railway subsidiary said on Tuesday, announcing a first of its kind offer from any national carrier.