Pakistan Railways suspends six trains

Pakistan Railways on Saturday issued a notification to close six passenger trains, primarily, for financial constraints.

According to the notification, around 102 trains will be put out of operation within the next couple of months.

Three trains including Taiz Ro Express, Sialkot Express and Sakhi Abbas Express will stop functioning from today onwards, while later in the month three more trains including Shalimar, Mehran and Chaltin will also be closed.

Railway sources said that after the closure of these six trains they will save Rs1 billion and they will use the engines and power vans of those trains in other trains.

Railway sources said that the income from Taiz Ro was around Rs301 million while expenditures were around Rs500 million.

Similarly Chaltin’s income was around Rs220 million while expenditures was around Rs610 million, Shalimar’s income Rs490 million while expenditure on it was around Rs670 million, Mehran’s income was around Rs150 million and its expenditure was around Rs80 million and Sakhi Abbas Express’ income was Rs0.8 million while expenditures on it was around Rs90 million.