Around 30,000 tickets were sold in the first three hours of the ticket office opening after the Indian Railways on Monday announced the launch of 30 special trains to and from New Delhi from Tuesday.
All tickets for Tuesday’s Mumbai-Delhi train have been sold out, a railways spokesperson said. Three trains will leave New Delhi on Tuesday for Dibrugarh, Bengaluru and Bilaspur.
These special trains will have only air conditioned coaches—in all classes and tiers—with fares similar to Rajdhani trains, excluding meals, the railways said, even as it kept all other train services suspended.
The government expects passengers to make their own way to the railway station. Movement of passengers as well as the person driving the vehicle to and from