LAHORE: In a bid to facilitate more and more passengers preferring travel by rail network, the Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to run two more railcar trains on Lahore-Rawalpindi-Lahore route.

According to a spokesman for the department, the first new train would start departing from Lahore daily for Rawalpindi on Sept 5 at 7.30pm and reach the destination at 11:40pm. Similarly, a non-stop train would depart for Lahore from Rawalpindi at 7:30pm and reach the destination at 11:40pm.

The second train (with certain stoppages) would start departing for Rawalpindi from Lahore daily from Sept 6 at 5am and reach the destination at 9:25am. A similar train would start departing from Rawalpindi for Lahore from Sept 6 on the same timings.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2022

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