Bandra train returns today

Chandigarh, March 19
After its successful maiden run, the Chandigarh-Bandra train will return to the railway station at 4:20 pm tomorrow.

The 12451 Bandra-Chandigarh train was running full to capacity and no seats were available. All seats from the commercial capital in the newly launched train had been reserved till June.

The train, which would leave the city every Sunday at 5:45 pm, would enable young IT professionals from the city employed in Mumbai to join duty on Monday as the train would reach there at 9:20 am.

Rakesh Sharma, a computer engineer with Infosys, who boarded the train on Sunday, said though an announcement to ply the train twice a week had been made in the Railway Budget, the train should be run daily as a large number of IT professionals from the city were working in Mumbai and Pune.

Formal arrangements had been made at the local railway station for welcoming passengers arriving here in the evening.

Station superintendent Parveen Kumar said arrangement had been made and a welcome message for passengers returning by the train would be flashed on screens at the railway station.