Indian Railways in a bid to resume its services will be running 15 special trains from/to New Delhi starting tomorrow, May 12th, 2020. All these trains will be connecting 15 major cities to New Delhi including Howrah, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru among others. The booking process will begin from 4.00 pm today, May 11th.

The bookings for all these special trains can be only be done via the IRCTC mobile application or IRCTC website. Railways or IRCTC agents are not allowed to accept any bookings for these services.

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The trains will be fully air-conditioned and Railways will be charging usual AC fares for these trains. All passengers must go through a COVID-19 screening process before and only asymptomatic passengers will be allowed to board the trains. Usage of facemask is mandatory.

The trains will have limited halts with stoppages only at stations as indicated in the table below.

Here is the list of special trains with stoppages, as reported by NDTV:

List of Trains Leaving to/from New Delhi

Destination Frequency Stoppages Commencement Date
Howrah to New Delhi Daily Asansol Jn,
Dhanbad Jn,
Gaya Jn,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central 
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Howrah Daily Asansol Jn,
Dhanbad Jn,
Gaya Jn,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central 
May 13th, 2020
Rajendra Nagar to New Delhi Daily Patna Jn,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Rajendra Nagar Daily Patna Jn,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central
May 13th, 2020
Dibrugarh to New Delhi Daily Dimapur,
Lumding Jn
Guwahati,
Kokrajhar
Mariani
New Jalpaiguri,
Katihar Jn,
Barauni Jn,
Danapur,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central
May 14th, 2020
New Delhi to Dibrugarh Daily Dimapur,
Lumding Jn
Guwahati,
Kokrajhar
Mariani
New Jalpaiguri,
Katihar Jn,
Barauni Jn,
Danapur,
Pdt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Prayagraj Jn,
Kanpur Central
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Jammu Tawi Daily Ludhiana
May 13th, 2020
Jammu Tawi to New Delhi Daily Ludhiana May 14th, 2020
Bengaluru to New Delhi Daily Anantpur
Guntakal Jn
Secunderabad
Nagpur
Bhopal Jn
Jhansi
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Bengaluru Daily Anantpur
Guntakal Jn
Secunderabad
Nagpur
Bhopal Jn
Jhansi
May 12th, 2020
Thiruvananthapuram to New Delhi Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Ernakulam Jn
Kozhikode
Mangalore
Madgaon
Panvel
Vadodara
Kota
May 15th, 2020
New Delhi to Thiruvananthapuram Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday Ernakulam Jn
Kozhikode
Mangalore
Madgaon
Panvel
Vadodara
Kota
May 13th, 2020
Chennai Central to New Delhi Friday and Sunday Vijayawada
Warangal
Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
Agra
May 15th, 2020
New Delhi to Chennai Central Wednesday and Friday Vijayawada
Warangal
Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
Agra
May 13th, 2020
Bilaspur to New Delhi Monday and Thursday Raipur Jn
Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
May 14th, 2020
New Delhi to Bilaspur Tuesday and Saturday Raipur Jn
Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
May 12th, 2020
Ranchi to New Delhi Thursday and Sunday Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn
Kanpur Central
May 14th, 2020
New Delhi to Ranchi Wednesday and Saturday Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn
Kanpur Central
May 13th, 2020
Mumbai Central to New Delhi Daily Surat
Vadodara
Ratlam
Kota
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Mumbai Central Daily Surat
Vadodara
Ratlam
Kota
May 13th, 2020
Ahmedabad to New Delhi Daily Palanpur
Abu Road
Jaipur
Gurgaon
May 12th, 2020
New Delhi to Ahmedabad Daily Palanpur
Abu Road
Jaipur
Gurgaon
May 13th, 2020
Agartala to New Delhi Monday Badarpur Jn
Guwahati
Kokrajhar
New Jalpaiguri
Katihar Jn
Barauni Jn
Patliputra
Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Kanpur Central 
May 18th, 2020
New Delhi to Agartala Wednesday Badarpur Jn
Guwahati
Kokrajhar
New Jalpaiguri
Katihar Jn
Barauni Jn
Patliputra
Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Jn,
Kanpur Central 
May 20th, 2020
Bhubneshwar to New Delhi Daily Balasor
Hijli (Kharagpur)
Tatanagar
Bokaro Steel City
Gaya
Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya JN
Kanpur Central
May 13th, 2020
New Delhi to Bhubneshwar Daily Balasor
Hijli (Kharagpur)
Tatanagar
Bokaro Steel City
Gaya
Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya JN
Kanpur Central
May 14th, 2020
New Delhi to Madgaon Friday and Saturday Ratnagiri
Panvel
Surat
Vadodara Jn
Kota Jn
May 15th, 2020
Madgaon to New Delhi Monday and Sunday Ratnagiri
Panvel
Surat
Vadodara Jn
Kota Jn
May 17th, 2020
Secunderabad to New Delhi Wednesday Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
May 20th, 2020
New Delhi to Secunderabad Sunday Nagpur
Bhopal
Jhansi
May 17th, 2020

Tickets for these trains can be booked seven days in advance. Online cancellation is permitted if done at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure of the train and 50% booked fare will be charged as a cancellation charge. No cancellation request will be entertained with less than 24 hours before the departure.

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Passengers with valid tickets will be allowed to enter the respective railway stations and they will have to reach at least 90 minutes before the departure for screening purposes. The exact time schedule of these special trains has not been published yet and one can get information about the same during the booking process.

It should be noted that all these trains are different from the Shramik Express which are run for migrant daily wage workers. Indian Railways has already run more than 300 such trains ferrying more than 1.5 lakh workers, according to reports.