On Thursday, the Principal Chief Safety Officer of South Eastern Railway, Pradeep Kumar, conducted a safety audit of the Hatia-Muri rail section. The inspection included a check of level crossings on the Silli-Muri section, crew lobbies and running rooms at Muri station, and facilities for crew and guards. The audit also...
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covered AC rooms, vegetarian and non-vegetarian kitchens, toilets, bathrooms, running room registers, and complaint books. Following this, a technical inspection was carried out on the Gautamdhara-Ganga Ghat section, Tatisilwai station and yard point, crossings, and the Tatisilwai-Namkum stretch. Instructions were given to ensure vigilance in train operations. Present at the site were ADRM Manish Kumar, Chief Electrical Loco Engineer Piyush Gupta, Transport Manager Basant Sharma, Chief Signal Engineer Gaurav Singh, SC Chaudhary, Divisional Safety Officer N. Srinivasan, Shreya Singh, and others. In terms of passenger convenience, the coach composition of two pairs of trains operating through Ranchi Railway Division has been altered. The Hyderabad-Raxul Express, starting from November 14th, will consist of 22 coaches, including a generator car, an SLRD, four general class coaches, seven second class sleeper coaches, six ST three-tier coaches, two AC two-tier coaches, and a VPH coach. The Raxul-Hyderabad Express will have the same coach composition starting from November 17th. Due to development work on the Muri-Chandil section under the Ranchi Railway Division of South Eastern Railway, a mega block will be implemented on November 14th. As a result, the Tata Nagar-Barkakana-Tata Nagar MEMU Passenger via Muri and the Tata Nagar-Hatia-Tata Nagar MEMU Special trains will be canceled on that date.

The Ranchi Railway Division will be undertaking development work on the Kita-Gautamdhara rail section under the Ranchi-Muri section. This will affect train operations on June 22, 24, and 27. Train number 13503, the Vardhman-Hatia MEMU Express, will be affected during these dates, with specific details and schedule changes likely to be...
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announced separately.

On May 20th, several train operations on the Kita-Gautamdhara railway line have been modified due to development work. The Vardhman-Hatia MEMU will terminate at Bokaro on May 20th. The Kharagpur-Hatia Express will run up to Adra station and the Tatanagar-Hatia Express will run up to Purulia. Trains departing from Hatia to...
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these locations will operate as usual.

The Ranchi Railway Division will be conducting traffic and power blockades on the Kita-Gautamdhara rail section under the Ranchi-Muri section and the Mile-Ramgarh Cantt rail section under the Muri-Ramgarh Cantt section. This will affect several trains. The Vardhman-Hatia-Vardhman MEMU Express will depart from Bokaro Steel City on May 18th and 20th...
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and will only travel up to Bokaro Steel City on the return journey. The Tatanagar-Hatia-Tatanagar Express will depart from Purulia station on the 18th and will end its journey there on the 20th. The Kharagpur-Hatia-Kharagpur Express will depart from Coca Adra station on the 18th. The Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Special Express will depart from Dhanbad on May 18th with a 30-minute delay from its scheduled departure time. The Anand Vihar Hatia Express will travel on May 17th via the modified route Barakarana-Mesra-Tatisilwai instead of its regular route Barakarana-Muri-Tatisilwai.