The national transporter, to improve its customer experience, will upgrade the old coaches by adding charging points for every seat, tray-tables, new fans, better seat covers, new taps, pictures in the passages.

There will be CCTV cameras, diffused lighting, automatic doors and footsteps and a GPS-based passenger information system.

The latest decision will provide a big relief to the railway passengers as the scheme will also be removed from total 32 trains during lean periods.

This swanky semi-high speed 16-coach train is set to replace the existing Shatabdi Express, running since 1988, for inter-city travel, and will cut the journey time by 15 per cent.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal is all set to give a Diwali gift to travellers. The Flexi-fare scheme has previously felt criticism from the passengers CAG of India

Indian Railways' idea is to raise revenue through higher utilisation of seats and not by passing the burden on the travellers.

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The Ministry of Railways has been gradually changing the face of Indian trains.

As part of the Railways' plan to increase the speeds of all long-distance passenger trains by 25km per hour by 2022, it has decided to replace the Shatabdi Express trains with much-awaited semi-high speed 'Train 18'.

Indian Railways has revised the schedule of over 300 Northern Railways trains. The new schedule will be effective from August 15, which means the previous timings will be applicable till August 14.

In its report for year ending March 2017, the CAG has found that the flexi-fare system in premium trains led to increase in passenger earnings but the number of travellers during September 9, 2016 to July 31, 2017 came down by over six lakhs when compared to the corresponding period in 2015-2016.

Features like train search without login, easy-to-use web interface, alternative accommodation facility, etc, have been incorporated in the new IRCTC portal, whose final version was launched on June 13.

The IRCTC manager would attend to the complaints even when the train is in motion and would report to the train captain at the railway station where the train originates.

Not only trains, the Railways has been modernizing train stations by incorporating state-of-the-art features and services which would be at par with those available at airports.