Passengers looking to travel by ‘special trains’ to be run by the railways from Tuesday will need to reach stations 90 minutes before the departure time, wear masks, and preferably bring their own food as well as linen and travel light, as per the guidelines issued on Monday.
Till 1930 hrs on Monday, more than 18,000 tickets were booked, the Railways said.
By 9: 15 pm, almost three hours after the booking was opened, approximately 30,000 PNRs were generated and reservation was issued to more than 54,000 passengers, a Railways spokesperson said.
The railways on Sunday announced plans to start 15 pairs of special trains May 12 onwards as part of plans to restart the passenger service gradually.
The bookings for these trains from New Delhi to Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Cen