What kinds of tickets have been or are used in India other than the old Edmondson card tickets?

17-07-2019

The early Rajdhani Express tickets were unusual. The Bombay Rajdhani tickets resembled airline tickets in format (although somewhat thinner), and the Howrah Rajdhani tickets were also wide like airline tickets but shorter, so that they resembled excess baggage tickets issued by the airlines of the time. WR and CR began issuing stiff paper tickets ('RapidPrinter' paper stock) for the Mumbai suburban trains some time in the 1980s or so, although card tickets continued to be issued at some stations for many years. Platform tickets (for access to the platform areas) are issued in square paper form at many stations, especially WR, NWR, etc. At bigger stations around the country, however,

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International freight: Are there direct freight trains running between India and neighbouring countries?
July 18, 2019

Freight trains run regularly between India and Pakistan via the Attari (Punjab) - Lahore route. The Munabao - Khokhrapar route is under consideration for goods traffic (it is currently only used for the Thar Express passenger traffic). Freight trains have also been running regularly between India and Bangladesh on the Gede-Darshana and Petrapole

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What is the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC)?
July 18, 2019

The Dedicated Freight Corridor is a project for new railway lines exclusively for carrying freight isolated from normal IR traffic and passenger trains. Conceived in 2004-2005, planning began in 2006, and in 2007 initial proposals have been drawn up. The entire DFC project will include 2,700km or so of exclusive freight lines (new construction),

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What are CONTRACK trains? And ConRaj trains? And CARTRAC?
July 18, 2019

Recently CONCOR has begun running some fast (up to 100km/h) guaranteed delivery container freight trains on certain routes (35 rail corridors have been identified as suitable for such service). The rakes consist of 5-wagon groups of flat cars; the flat cars are low flat cars which allow loading 'Tallboy' containers. A particular freight service

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Who carries container traffic in India?
July 18, 2019

Most rail container traffic in India is handled by CONCOR (the Container Corporation of India) which until recently was the only such organization. CONCOR is a public-sector concern, but it maintains its own fleet of wagons and other assets that are separate from IR's, although the traffic moves on IR's tracks. Recently the government has given

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How are freight trains numbered or named?
July 18, 2019

The rakes are assigned names in alphabetic sequence starting with a name that begins with an 'A' for the first formation out of a marshalling yard after 0100 hrs, along with a number. This designation can change if the rake is broken up at another yard and regrouped. Thus, freight trains have names such as 'Ahmedabad 10', or 'Bombay 21', or 'India

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How are freight trains scheduled?
July 18, 2019

Some goods trains are run as pre-scheduled or timetabled services (Link and Crack trains, Quick Transit Service, etc.). The majority of goods trains, however, are run as requirements arise. The process of arranging for a goods train to run is known as ordering a goods train. Ordering a goods train involves the issuance of written advice to the

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