Due to less passengers during the Corona period, the railways has stopped operating 16 trains. These trains used to run on the route of Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal.
Indian Railways has stopped operating 16 trains on routes between Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. The Up and Down trains (eight pairs) have been permanently suspended due to low passengers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
This information was shared by South Eastern Railway (SER) in response to an RTI. The suspended trains included the Ranchi-Patna AC Express, which used to run between Jharkhand and Bihar via Koderma, Hazaribagh city and Barkakana.
These trains got suspended
– 18633 Ranchi-Patna AC Express
– 18634 Patna-Ranchi AC Express
– 12865 Howrah-Purulia Express
– 12866 Purulia-Howrah Express
– 22875 Kharagpur-Purulia Intercity Express
– 22876 Purulia-Kharagpur Intercity Express
– 22886 Tata-Lokmanya Tilak Antyodaya Express
– 22885 Lokmanya Tilak-Tata Antyodaya Express
– 22861 Shalimar-Adra Rajyarani Express
– 22862 Adra-Shalimar Rajyarani Express
– 18113 Tata-Ranchi Intercity
– 18114 Ranchi-Tata Intercity
– 22821 Jhargram – Purulia Birsa Munda Express
– 22822 Purulia-Jhargram Bir Munda Express
– 68643 Kharagpur-Hijli EMU Passenger
– 68644 Hijli-Kharagpur EMU Passenger In
May 2020, Railways declared Hazaribagh Town station as the 6000th station in the country with free Wi-Fi facility for passengers. But since then not a single passenger train has operated from this station.
