Indian Railways has announced an unreserved special train from New Delhi to Darbhanga on Tuesday, November 10, to ease the heavy passenger rush from the capital to Bihar ahead of Chhath Puja. Train number 04474 will run on the Bihar Sampark Kranti route and will have 10 unreserved coaches.
The train will depart from New Delhi at 12:05 pm, according to Northern Railway chief public relations officer Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay. The service has been introduced as regular trains and previously announced special services are facing high demand during the post-Diwali travel period.
The special train will stop at Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Tundla, Kanpur, Aishbagh, Badshahnagar, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Deoria Sadar, Siwan, Chhapra, Sonpur, Hajipur, Muzaffarpur, Karpurigram and Samastipur before reaching Darbhanga. The railway has linked the train’s route to Bihar Sampark Kranti train 12566.
The announcement comes as Delhi’s railway stations experience a seasonal increase in outbound passenger movement. Chhath Puja, which is widely observed in Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, generates concentrated travel demand from the National Capital Region to towns and cities across the two states. The resulting pressure is particularly visible at major terminals serving Bihar-bound trains.
Railway authorities have been retaining spare train sets so that unreserved special services can be introduced at short notice when passenger loads rise on specific routes. On Monday, an unreserved special train was operated between Anand Vihar Terminal and Bhagalpur as part of the same effort to manage the festival travel surge.
The use of unreserved coaches allows passengers without advance reserved tickets to travel on the additional service, although the announcement does not specify the train’s arrival time in Darbhanga or the fare structure. The railway said other routes are also being reviewed in response to demand, but no further service details were provided in the announcement.
