The Railway Ministry on Friday (December 26, 2025) said that to keep up with the rapid and sustained growth in travel, the capacity of major cities to originate new trains needs to be doubled in the next five years.
It added that the current infrastructure needs to be augmented so as to meet the requirements of the upcoming years.
Highlighting actions needed for doubling the originating capacity by the year 2030, it plans to augment the current terminals with additional platforms, identify and create new terminals in and around the urban area, construct maintenance facilities, including mega coaching complexes and increase the sectional capacity with traffic facility works, among others.
"While planning for increasing the capacity of terminals, stations around terminals will also be considered so that capacity is evenly balanced. For example, for Pune city, Hadapsar, Khadki and Alandi have been considered for increasing capacity along with increasing platforms and stabling lines at Pune station," the Ministry said.
It added, "The above exercise will be done for both suburban as well as non-suburban traffic, keeping in view the distinct requirements of both segments." The Ministry will submit a comprehensive plan of stations in the 48 major cities to the Planning Directorate. Some of these cities are Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Patna, Pune, Mathura, Agra and Ludhiana, among others.
