164.30 crore passengers carried in 8.33 lakh trains by Central Railway

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Mumbai: Central Railway has achieved remarkable growth in passenger transportation during Financial Year(FY) 2025-26 registering a steady increase in both suburban and non-suburban segments. Besides CR has also introduced new trains-both Mail/exp & Suburban, ran Special trains during festivals and introduced new stations & additional halts in FY 2025-26.

Details are as under:

Trains Run: Central Railway has run approximately 8.33 lakh train services during the FY 2025-26 with Zero Consequential Accidents . These include 6.28 lakh Suburban train services ( Mumbai & Pune) & 2.05 lakh Mail/Exp and Passenger train services (All divisions).

Passengers Carried: Central Railway has carried a total of 164.30 Crore passengers during the Financial year(FY) 2025-26 marking an increase of 1.84 % over 161.33 Crore passengers carried last year. This includes-

  • 143.58 Crore passengers carried in 6.28 lakh suburban trains in FY2025-26 against 141.98 Crore passengers last year- increase of 1.12% &
  • 20.71 Crore passengers carried in 2.05 lakh Mail/Express/Passenger and other non-suburban trains in FY 2025-26 as against 19.34 Crore passengers last year- increase of 7.08%.

Additional Stoppages provided: 76 additional stoppages have been provided to 33 trains on Central Railway for the benefit of passengers.

New Trains: Central Railway has introduced 7 trains on different routes during FY 2025-26 which include:

  • The 26101/26102 Pune-Ajni-Pune Vande Bharat Express with effect from 11.08.2025 carrying the total number of Vande Bharat trains on CR to 11.
  • 2 Amrit Bharat trains viz- the 11015/11016 LTT-Saharsa-LTT Amrit Bharat Express w.e.f 02.05.2025 & the 11031/11032 Panvel-Alipurduar-Panvel Amrit Bharat Express w.e.f 23.02.2026.
  • In addition the 20495/20496 Hadapsar-Jodhpur-Hadapsar express, 20151/20152 Hadapsar-Rewa-Hadapsar express, 15590/15589 Hadapsar-Muzzafarpur-Hadapsar express & 17426/17425 Sainagar Shirdi-Tirupati-Sainagar Shirdi express were also started in FY 2025-26.

New Suburban Trains: CR has added 10 suburban services on the Uran line making the total services on the section to 50 and total Suburban services on CR to 1820.

Increase in AC locals: 14 services on the CSMT-Kalyan Main line & 14 services on the CSMT-Panvel Harbour line were upgraded from Non-AC to AC local service making the total AC services on CR to 94.

Special Trains: CR in addition to its regular scheduled trains, ran a total of 12032 trips of Special Trains to cater to the increased rush of passengers during festivals. These include:

  • 326 Ganpati Specials to Konkan
  • 1712 Durga Puja/Diwali/Chhat Puja Specials
  • 1358 Summer Specials
  • 1038 Holi Specials
  • 122 Ashadi Ekadashi Specials &
  • 109 Winter Specials.

Besides 23 CR trains were augmented with additional General Second Class Coaches to clear the extra rush of passengers during the period April-2025 to March-2026.

CR in collaboration with IRCTC ran 18 Tourist Trains including 18 Bharat Gaurav Trains and 7 Mukhya Mantri Teerth Darshan Yojana trains as part of the Bharat Gaurav Teerth Yatra project of the Ministry of Railways.

New Stations: 7 new stations have been operationalized on CR

  • 2 on the suburban section in Mumbai viz-Gavan & Targhar and
  • 5 on the Amalner-Beed line viz- Jatanandur, Vighanwadi, Raimoha, Rajuri(Navgan) & Beed.

Station development & Increase in Speed of trains: 12 stations have been redeveloped and speed of 77 pair of trains have been increased from 110kmph to 130kmph during FY 2025-26.

Central Railway remains committed to providing safe, comfortable, economical, reliable, and efficient transportation to all its passengers and continues to strengthen its services to meet rising commuter expectations.