Bhubaneswar: With a view to clear additional rush of passengers in some regular trains, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) today decided to augment additional coaches permanently in some of the important trains by creating additional berths.

These trains are 20805/20806 Visakhapatnam-New Delhi-Visakhapatnam AP Express, 18311/18312 Sambalpur-Manduadih (Varanasi)-Sambalpur Express, 22804/22803 Samblpur-Howrah-Sambalpur Weekly Express via Angul & Bhadrak, 18303/18304 Sambalpur-Puri-Sambalpur Inter City Express and 12893/12894 Bhubaneswar-Balangir-Bhubaneswar Inter-City Express.

The ECoR statement added 20805/20806 Visakhapatnam-New Delhi-Visakhapatnam AP Express from Visakhapatnam w.e.f. 16th March and from New Delhi w.e.f. 18th March, 2020 will be augmented with One Sleeper Class. Similarly, 18311/18312 Sambalpur-Manduadih (Varanasi)-Sambalpur Express from Sambalpur w.e.f. 18th March and from Varanasi w.e.f. 19th March, 2020 and 22804/22803 Samblpur-Howrah-Sambalpur Weekly Express via Angul & Bhadrak from Sambalpur w.e.f. 20th March and from Howrah w.e.f. 21st March, 2020 will be augmented with One Sleeper Class coach each.

Apart from this, 18303/18304 Sambalpur-Puri-Sambalpur Inter City Express and 12893/12894 Bhubaneswar-Balangir-Bhubaneswar Inter City Express will be augmented with One Chair Car Coach each w.e.f. 16th March, 2020 from both the directions.