Bhubaneswar: The Odisha headquartered East Coast Railway witnessed unprecedented cancellations of tickets by passengers due to the Coronavirus scares.
In last six days, it saw that over 1 lakh tickets were cancelled by the passengers. This cancellations of tickets is 67% more than the cancellations during the period last year.The all India cancellations has gone up by 80%.
In view of huge cancellations of tickets, the ECoRly has cancelled 5 pairs of special trains from various places under its Zone.
TEMPORARY CANCELLATION OF SPECIAL TRAINS: Train No. 08501/08502 Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Visaskhapatnam Special will be cancelled from Visakhapatnam on 17th, 24th and 31st March, 2020 and from Secunderabad on 18th, 25th and 1st of April, 2020. Train No. 08573/08574 Visakhapatnam-Tirupati-Visakhapatnam Special will be cancelled from Visakhapatnam on 23rd & 30th March, 2020 and from Tirupati on 24th & 31st March, 2020. Train No. 08301/08302 Sambalpur-Banaswadi-Sambalpur Special train will be cancelled from Sambalpur on 18th & 25th March, 2020 and from Banaswadi on 19th & 26th March, 2020. Train No. 08407/08408 Bhubaneswar-Secunderabad-Bhubaneswar Special will be cancelled from Bhubaneswar on 19th & 26th March, 2020 and from Secunderabad on 20th and 27th March, 2020. Similarly Train No. 08403/08404 Puri-Santragachi-Puri Special will be cancelled from Puri on 20th & 27th March, 2020 and from Santragachi on 21st and 28th March, 2020.
