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| Circular number | Commercial Circular No. 46 of 2010 |
|---|---|
| File number | No.2010/TG-1I20/P |
| Date | 2010-09-09 |
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | train-services |
| Directorate | Traffic Commercial |
| Currency | Historical — likely superseded |
| Official PDF | indianrailways.gov.in |
Five digit train numbering scheme trains faU'shall be the guiding factor for the numbering of trains.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (Bharat Sarkar) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (Rail Mantralya) (RAILWAY BOARD) **** . No.2010/TG-1I20/P New Delhi, dated 15 .9.2010 Chief Commercial Managers, All Zonal Railways. MD/CRIS, Chanakya Puri, New Delhi. (COMMERCIAL CIRCULAR NO. 46 OF 2010) Sub: Five digit train numbering scheme. Please find enclosed a copy of Board's letter No. 2007/Chg-II/22/2-Numbering dated 09.09.2010 on the subject quoted above. 2. CRIS is requested to take necessary action to modify the software accordingly and advise the date of its implementation to all the Zonal Railways as well as this office. 3. Zonal Railways should take necessary action in this regard and arrange to fire the new train numbers in the PRS and NTES after getting the necessary information from CRIS. DA: As above. ~(.. (~~~; Director Traffic Commercial (G)-II Railway Board Copy to: 1. General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 2. CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways. 3. MDIIRCTC, Bank ofBaroda Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi. 4. EDV (T), EDFC, DF(C), OSD/TC, F(C) & V (SS) branches of Railway Board. 5. Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway Staff College, Vadodara. 6. Adv.(IR) for issuing necessary duty passes to doctors and their staff. 7. The Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central Railway/Bhusaval, Eastern Railway Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE Railway, Muzaffarpur, NF Railway, Alipurduar, Southern Railway, Trichy, SE Railway, Sini, Western Railway, Udaipur. 8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3, Chelmsford Road, New Delhi. 9. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State Entry Road, New Delhi. 10. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room No.365-A, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. 11. Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room No.268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. 12. Secretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No.549, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. I>, "" f 1.-" \ / /' I . /, ,'".I , I ,(,. ,', i" "~I ;:" , , , f' ./', \, ';: Dated: 09/091201 (] No .2007/Chg-III2212-Numbering. , The General Managers (Optg), All IndIa Railways. .~ Sub: Five digit train nurnbering scheme ':. Five digit train numbering scheme has beCQme necessary in view of the to 'digit numbering scheme havinggot exhaustediis also the need, to capture tt passenger and suburban train setvices in the COA, ICMS,PRS,and. other softwal applications.The telecommunicationequipment available in the country may not t having alphabetical keypads particularlyin interiorrural areas, and;therefore alph~ .,num~ricnumberingscheme has notbeen considered. . ,,' The five digitnew train numberingscheme prqposes .tocapture the suburba, ;'holiday,specials,. trains run on RailwaysCo'nvet1i~nce,'mixed,trains, and all such train 'which ar~hormally running orta '$chedlded path ~nd Whoserunning is to be monitore or information made available to the public/customers. Other than the freight trains 01 the FOIS, the proposed train nU~tbetingScnE!mewillbe capable of capturing the rest. Ministry of Railways desire therefore ttiat. all the passenger carrying trains b4 renumbered as per the.five dig!ttrain numbering scheme. " A. For all Mail/Express trains including Duronto, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Jar .. .Shatabdi, Sampark Krantl, Jan Sadharan, Garlb Rath, Super-fast trains etc.. , 1. , ' ~'~1',%~ 'S~'y' 2. ~~;/ 3. ft-' ~~ .All Mail/Express: trains including Duronto, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Jar Sh,~tabdi, Sampark Kranti, 'Jan Sa~h~tan, Garib Rath, Super-fast trains, . trainswhichfora part of the journey have a MaiflExpress character in an) one ~irection, and which .presently',have a fdurdigitnumber, shall be prefixed with the digit '1'. the existing four digit train numbering system for these trains shall continue. Wherever the four digit numbering scheme shall get exhausted under the plan at para 1 mentionedabo\!e, the prefix of '2' sha'" b~ :utilized as the first.o
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