Which trains are delayed

Sagami Line. Tsurumi Line. Utsunomiya Line. Takasaki Line. Kawagoe Line. Musashino Line. Shin-etsu Line. Agatsuma Line. Karasuyama Line. Itsukaichi Line. Koumi Line. If your Eurostar train has been delayed or cancelled, the rules are different compared with British rail travel.

Find out the differences and your entitlements. From 01 October you can claim compensation for certain types of poor service on almost all transport services, including mainline passenger rail services, coaches and ferry journeys.

Our guides explain when and how to claim, what to do if you have a season ticket and any exceptions to compensation rules. Then there were law and order problems, theft of railway assets and cases involving trains running over cattle and humans, etc. While it is thus not a simple case of trains chugging along at slow speeds that is the reason behind delays, the CAG report had said that infrastructural issues were, in fact, the biggest contributor to trains failing to run on time.

But it had noted that providing platforms with adequate length, facilities for stabling and maintenance of trains, adequate yard capacity, etc.

On July 1 this year, Rail Minister Piyush Goyal had tweeted that Indian railways had achieved per cent punctuality in the running of trains. That is, not a single train had been delayed that day. However, as reports pointed out, the achievement came amid the pandemic-induced lockdown when the railways were operating only a fraction of the total trains that it used to run during normal times.

Over the years, however, the railways have taken steps to cut down on delays. With the railway inviting private players to operate trains, reports last year had said that penalties have been envisaged in draft rules for any delays in the service. Private operators are required to maintain 95 per cent punctuality through the year and pay a fine if a train is delayed by more than 15 minutes, it was reported.