Indian Railways plans to reduce wait-listed passengers through Clone Train Scheme.

Indian Railways to provide relief to the wait-listed passengers may run ” CLONE TRAIN ” in the routes which generally has high passenger traffic.

A clone train will be train which will be running with the same number like the actual train. The waitlisted passengers will be informed about their berths in the clone train soon after the reservation charts for the original scheduled trains are drawn up four hours before departure.

At a media briefing, the railway board chairman VK Yadav said Railways will monitor all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which trains have a long waiting list. Wherever there is a demand for a particular train, wherever the waiting list is long, we will run a clone train ahead of the actual train, so that passengers can travel. The stoppages of the clone trains will be less than the special trains. The idea is to have stoppages at major stations for clone trains to meet demands of people .