SWARNA UPGRADED MEMU

Recently some of the MEMU rakes of Asansol Memu shed has been upgraded for providing better facilities to the passengers, may be first of it's kind. Coaches has been painted and the interiors has been decorated with various paintings(pic 5). Basins and mirrors has been installed in each coach (pic 4). Washrooms also has been upgraded and has been painted (pic 4), a good thing indeed for long distance MEMUs like Asansol Varanasi Memu, Asansol Gaya Memu, Bardhaman Hatia Memu, etc
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TWO PRIDES OF ER IN ONE FRAME

Jammu Tawi - Sealdah Humsafar exp arrives on pf 5 of Asansol with Gazi p7 while route diverted Vikramshila exp arrives pf 6 with twin p4

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CHANGING DAYS

One of the oldest running passenger train of ER, Bardhaman Hatia Passenger has been converted now into a MEMU. From today onwards, it will run with MEMU rake instead of conventional rake.
The fully loaded old conventional coaches entering stations of ER with the old customary loco link of Tata will be badly missed now
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Pic 1 - One of the last run of 53061/62 Bardhaman Hatia Passenger with Tata waggie, captured on last week
Pic 2 - 63503/04 Bardhaman Hatia memu enters Asansol with new Asn based MEMU rake

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COMPLETE NSG CLASSIFICATION OF EASTERN RAILWAY

The list of Howrah and Asansol Division contains stations in each category as per their revenue while Maldah and Sealdah division has listed stations alphabetically in each category

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DIVISION

NSG 1 - Howrah
NSG 2 - Bardhaman
NSG 3 - Rampurhat, Bandel
NSG 4 - Bolpur
SG 2 (equivalent to NSG 2 station criteria in suburban category) - Srirampore, Rishra, Konnagar, Sheoraphuli

SEALDAH DIVISION

NSG 1 - Sealdah
NSG 2 - Kolkata, Naihati
NSG 3 - .....nil.....
NSG 4 - Baharampur
SG 2 - Barasat, Barrackpore, Baruipur, Belgharia, Bidhannagar Road, Chakdah, Dum Dum, Habra, Khardah, Krishnanagar, Madhyamgram, Ranaghat, Shyamnagar, Sodepur, Sonarpur, Subhashgram

ASANSOL DIVISION

NSG 1 - .....nil.....
NSG 2 - Asansol
NSG 3 - Jasidih, Durgapur
NSG 4 - Madhupur, Raniganj, Andal, Baidyanathdham, Deoghar, Basukinath

MALDAH DIVISION

NSG 1 - .....nil.....
NSG 2 - Bhagalpur
NSG 3 - Maldah Town, Jamalpur
NSG 4 - New Farakka, Sultanganj

Pic 1 - overall stat of each category of station in each division of ER
Pic 2,3,4,5,6,7 - NSG classification of stations of Howrah Division
Pic 8,9,10 - NSG classification of stations of Asansol Division
Pic 11,12,13,14 - NSG classification of stations of Maldah Division
Pic 15,16,17,18,19,20 - NSG classification of stations of Sealdah Division

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