In view of the upcoming Chhath festival, Eastern Railway has announced to run two special trains between Howrah and Raxaul and Kolkata and Patna. Eastern Railway is going to run 03045 Howrah-Raxaul Chhath Special and 03133 Kolkata-Patna Special (via Dankuni). Both trains will have general second class and sleeper class coaches. With their operation, passengers will get additional 6912 berths.
03045 Howrah-Raxaul Chhath special train will depart from Howrah station at 11 pm on 13 and 16 November and reach Raxaul at 1.15 pm the next day. 03046 Raxaul-Howrah special train will depart from Raxaul station at 4.55 pm on 14th and 17th November and reach Howrah station at 8.50 am the next day. The said train will stop at Bandel, Burdwan, Durgapur, Asansol, Chittaranjan, Madhupur and Jasidih stations in Eastern Railway zone in both directions.
03133 Kolkata-Patna Special (Via Dankuni) will depart from Kolkata station at 11.55 pm on 14th and 16th November and reach Patna at 10.30 am the next day. 03134 Patna-Kolkata Special (Via Dankuni) will depart from Patna station at 2.30 pm on 15th and 17th November and reach Kolkata station at 12.25 midnight the next day.
There has been a huge demand for reservation especially in trains going to North India. The situation is the same in this train on 16th November also. There are regrets in sleeper category while the waiting list in 3A-140 and 2A is 73. Same is the situation with 13019 Bagh Express. In this train, the waiting list in the narrower class has reached 400 on 14, 15 and 16 November. The situation of AC class coaches is more or less the same. Talking about 15047 Purvanchal Express, the waiting list in sleeper class on 14th November is 389. The waiting list in SL as of November 16 is 395. In 13155 Mithilanchal Express, the waiting list has been regressed to SL class on 16th November i.e. reservation is not available. In 13105 Ballia Express, the waiting list has been relegated to sleeper class on 14, 15 and 16 November. It is worth noting that due to not getting seats in trains, people’s problems have increased.