The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has increased thespeed of 16 trains with effect from July 1 when the new time table will comeinto force.

NFR Spokesman P J Sharma said that thearrival/departure timings of 67 trains have also been changed at variousstations and the journey time of 16 trains has been reduced by a range of fiveto thirty minutes.

The trains whose journey times are reduced are AwadhAssam Express, Humsafar Express, Kanchanjunga Express, Deoghar Express, NagaonExpress, Rajya Rani Express, Capital Express, Katihar-Howrah Express andBarmar-Guwahati Express.

Sharma further informed that the arrival/departuretimings of some trains at Guwahati has also been changed. These trains areNew-Tinsukia-Bengaluru Express, Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express,Agartala-Anand Vihar Rajdhani Express, Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express,Dibrugarh-Delhi Brahmaputra Mail, Dibrugarh-Chandigarh Express andDibrugarh-Amritsar Express.  

However, the departure timing of Guwahati-HowrahSaraighat Express has also been changed at Guwahati along with Capital Expressand Paharia Express from New Jalpaiguri, Kanchan Kanya Express at Alipurduarand Katihar-Howrah Express from Katihar.

Sharma also informed that the departure timings of variousDEMU passenger trains have also been changed at stations like Katihar, Siliguriand Radhikapur.