Railway announces special trains for Puri Rath Yatra
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Visakhapatnam: To arrange for passengers comfortable journey during Rath Yatra (Car Festival) at Puri in Odisha, the East Coast Railway has decided to run special trains between Visakhapatnam-Puri, Jagdalpur-Puri and Rayagada-Khurda Road.
Special train number-08313 Visakhapatnam-Puri via Haripurgram, Arugul will leave Visakhapatnam at 12.45 am on June 27, and July 5 and will reach Puri on the same day at 12 pm. In the return direction, train number-08314 Puri -Visakhapatnam special train will leave Puri at 2.15 am (early hours of June 28 and July 6) to arrive in Visakhapatnam on the same day at 1 pm., informed K Saandeep, senior divisional commercial manager of Waltair Division.
Special train number-08445 Jagdalpur-Puri via Haripurgram, Argul will leave Jagdalpur at 9 am on June 26 and July 4 and will reach Puri at 1.15 am midnight. In return direction the train number-08446 Puri- Jagdalpur special will leave Puri at 12.45 am on June 28 and July 6 will reach Jagdalpur on the same day at 4.45 pm.
Similarly, train n-08593 Rayagada- Khurda Road special will leave Rayagada at 11 am on June 26 and July 4 will reach Khurda Road at 11.55 pm on the same day. In return direction the train number-08594 Khurda Road-Rayagada will leave Khurda Road at 1 am on June 28 and July 6 will reach Rayagada at 3 pm on the same day.
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