Delayed trains: ‘No improvement for 3 months’

LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways (PR) administration has said that it cannot end repeated train delays before three months.

A PR official said that locomotives have to be repaired before they become operational. The 23-UP Quetta Express, the 15-Up Karachi Express, the 9-up Allama Iqbal Express, the 1-UP Khyber Mail Express, the 115-UP Express, the 13-UP Awam Express and the 37-UP train were late by more than two hours on Sunday.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd,  2011.