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Four
new trains for Rajasthan
27 February 2008 . Jaipur,
Feb 27: Union Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad, has provided four new trains
to Rajasthan and proposed three new gauge conversions on the important
rail routes of the state, official sources of the North Western Railway
headquarters said here.
The four new trains include
a Garib Rath from Jaipur to Chandigarh which will run thrice a week.
"Earlier there was not even
a single train to connect Jaipur from Ajmer. People used to go to Delhi
to reach Chandigarh by rail," a spokesman said.
Other trains introduced are
Udaipur to Indore via Ratlam thrice a week, Udaipur to Delhi via Neem Ka
Thana(earlier this route was opened only for the meter gauge trains but
the new train will run on broad gauge) and a train from Jodhpur to Yashwantpur
near Bangalore.
Likewise the railway minister
has also given three new gauge conversions including Ahmedabad to Udaipur
via Dungarpur, Suratpur-Sriganganagar via Hanumangarh, and the Jaipur-Ringas-Churu-Loharu
route.
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