Janakpur-Jayanagar train service to be operated four times a day from today (video)

KATHMANDU: From today, trains will run four times a day from Kurtha, Nepal to Jayanagar, India.

Nepal Railways, Nepal’s only rail service, which currently operates from Kurtha, Nepal to Jayanagar, India, has expanded its service since Friday, making four round trips a day.

The train, which has only run twice so far, will run four times starting today, with the start of the new year 2080.

According to Railway General Manager Niranjan Jha, now the train will depart from Kurtha in Nepal at 7:15 in the morning and 2:45 in the evening for Jayanagar in India, while the train from Jayanagar in India will depart for Janakpurdham or Kurtha at 9:30 in the morning and 5 in the evening.

The expansion of this service is expected to reduce the pressure on passengers on trains and make travel more comfortable.

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Previously, the trains that opened from Kurtha only once had a shortage of seats and unnecessary overcrowding.

Also, General Manager Jha informed that the two-phase inspection work for extending the train service to Bijalpura has been completed and said that the Indian company Ircon has been requested to complete the remaining unfinished works soon and hand them over to them.

He said efforts were being made to expand train services to Bijalpura soon. He said he had requested two more trains from the government. One is for passengers, the other he is for cargo.

He said that now easy and accessible train services will be available. Earlier, the train departing from Janakpurdham at 10:30am would reach Jayanagar at 11:30am and leave again at 3pm for Janakpurdham, so the passengers would not have enough time for shopping and Indian market.

General Manager Jha along with a team of Indian technicians broke coconuts in front of the train and started the service expansion.