PM Nawaz Sharif Inaugurates Islamabad-Karachi Green Line Train

[Muhammad Omar]

• We already have a train service doing similar purpose, I believe that is cheaper but not as luxury

I think You are Talking about Business Train... Yupe Business Train Offer such Service but

It's a Private train and operate between Lahore and Karachi

Fare:
Budget Class 4500 Rupees
Business Class 5500 Rupees
Economy class Beth 2500 Rupees
Economy Class Seat 2200 Rupees

Departure from Karachi 3:30 PM
Arrival at Lahore 9:00 AM
Total time 18 hours

if you add Lahore to Islamabad Time which is 4 hours 30 min it's 22 hours 30 min and 15 -20 min stop at Lahore 23 Hours For Green Line Train

 

[Hyde]

I think You are Talking about Business Train... Yupe Business Train Offer such Service but

It's a Private train and operate between Lahore and Karachi

Fare:
Budget Class 4500 Rupees
Business Class 5500 Rupees
Economy class Beth 2500 Rupees
Economy Class Seat 2200 Rupees

Departure from Karachi 3:30 PM
Arrival at Lahore 9:00 AM
Total time 18 hours

if you add Lahore to Islamabad Time which is 4 hours 30 min it's 22 hours 30 min and 15 -20 min stop at Lahore 23 Hours For Green Line Train

Is that service still running? Ever heard two trains doing the same purpose?

If a private train started a service, it is obviously after the approval of the GoP, your very own Prime Minister inaugurated that train service. So if they did, why they want to turn that company into loss now? If the Government itself wants to compete with private companies nobody would ever imagine investing in Pakistan.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Is that service still running? Ever heard two trains doing the same purpose?

If a private train started a service, it is obviously after the approval of the GoP, your very own Prime Minister inaugurated that train service. So if they did, why they want to turn that company into loss now? If the Government itself wants to compete with private companies nobody would ever imagine investing in Pakistan.

yes it's running everyday and running successfully

But Sir g That train is from Lahore to Karachi with fare of 5500 Rupees
But Green Line is From Islamabad to Karachi With the same 5500 Rupees the people of Rawalpindi and Islamabad Has to go to Lahore by Buss or Train with extra fair and time to catch that train.... Business train won't be turn into loss for Sure

 

[Death Adder]

Our Government is so nice that when my plane was struck by lightening and diverted to New Delhi couple of months ago. We were stranded at Delhi Airport for about 40 hours. We tried to contact the Government of Pakistan and one of the guy managed to send an email to NDTV (as far as I heard). After receiving a reply from them we were told that our embassy will be in touch with us soon. But only to know that Prime Minister took notice of this incident and instructed to send a chartered PIA plane for us. The baba jee's of the flight were like "Mian Sahab ne kamaal kar diya ab bas plane aaya aur hum gaye"... We were there for another 24 hours or so and not even a single government official came to say "Hello", let alone the flight or consulate service provided by the government of Pakistan. Nobody was there to say sir we are with you and don't ask me about the condition of people over there as they were stranded in alien land in their point of view.

I was getting frustrated as I had not slept for about 60 hours and had very few days to spend in Pakistan so I alongside two other passengers started gathering people and asked them to protest so these people can fasten the pace of engineering work or provide us with alternative plane and finally we got the things under control within 3-4 hours when the head of Gulf Air, India came to us, apologised and took serious actions to sort this matter out.

When we reached Pakistan, there was a government officer who came to me saying oh sir jee, I know you have gone through a lot of stress in India and we could not do anything for you but I am told that you spoke well in India and the media wants to talk to you alongside few other passengers so please do not say anything bad to the government as the country is currently not in position to face further embarrassment before the world... long lecture of patriotism was conferred and I said to him if you want me to comment on the treatment of GoP then I have really worst things to say but you want me to speak nice for country's sake so I would abstain from opening my mouth and revealing reality. After I reached home, whomsoever I met, many people praising Nawaz Sharif government for the credit they hardly deserved and I made sure they all know the reality.

PML-N is just a publicity party, for any project if they don't see publicity, they would not set their feet in.

What you expect from them, to invite you and give you nice king size mattress in embassy where you sleep like Prince? In which airline you were travelling? Its responsibility of airline to shift passangers to hotels if flight is delayed. Secondly it was in New Delhi so it's common sense that things will be hard and slow as they also tried to stop operations of PIA.

 

[Hyde]

What you expect from them, to invite you and give you nice king size mattress in embassy where you sleep like Prince? In which airline you were travelling? Its responsibility of airline to shift passangers to hotels if flight is delayed. Secondly it was in New Delhi so it's common sense that things will be hard and slow as they also tried to stop operations of PIA.

Don't take undue credit for everything they don't do. It took me a month clarifying to people that no pia plane was ever dispatched to take us back home. The day I came home, many news channels were busy praising Nawaz Sharif and thanking him for sending the PIA plane to bring back Pakistanis from Delhi

 

[SBD-3]

Is that service still running? Ever heard two trains doing the same purpose?

If a private train started a service, it is obviously after the approval of the GoP, your very own Prime Minister inaugurated that train service. So if they did, why they want to turn that company into loss now? If the Government itself wants to compete with private companies nobody would ever imagine investing in Pakistan.

1-Green line is more catered towards people living in upcountry
2-People who would travel to Northern areas from down country especially Karachi.

 

[Hyde]

1-Green line is more catered towards people living in upcountry
2-People who would travel to Northern areas from down country especially Karachi.

Nice excuses.. Two lines covering the same route and one line being suspended after coverage of 85% of route does not make economic sense. If Business Express service was planned to be halted at Lahore junction, there would be economic sense in that decision.

I am not against the green line all I am against is the ill planning where the only cost of government is probably buying/refurbishing bogies and start running on existing railway infrastructure. It could be a wise step if it's doing something that hasn't been performed already but apparently this is all it is.

The government must invest to improve the railway tracks for speed up to 140-160km/hr and restrain other services to at least 30% slower service to make it look attractive product in the market.

Having said that our railway infrastructure is pretty poor and need massive investment for overhauling. We also do need regular trains running all over the country but it should be cost effective if it does not have an ability to stand unique in the market.

In UK you buy a train ticket for about 1200~ rupees and take unlimited journeys of underground and overground trains and buses all across London. You spend about 3500 rupees to travel the distance similar to Lahore and Karachi on buses or less than 10,000 on trains which will take you at the speed of over 200-300km per hour and cut your journey to less than half as compared to buses or private car.

In UK I have travelled to Norway from London (return journey) for only 1500 rupees with total distance longer than Karachi and Lahore and in Pakistan it costs 10 times more despite being cheap country as compared to west and they are still incurring losses. The bitter reality of our country

 

[SBD-3]

Nice excuses.. Two lines covering the same route and one line being suspended after coverage of 85% of route does not make economic sense. If Business Express service was planned to be halted at Lahore junction, there would be economic sense in that decision.

Which one else is covering the same route except tezgam? Please let me know. If you want to travel cheap, you can always travel in all-economy Pakistan exp

I am not against the green line all I am against is the ill planning where the only cost of government is probably buying/refurbishing bogies and start running on existing railway infrastructure. It could be a wise step if it's doing something that hasn't been performed already but apparently this is all it is.

Like train to the moon? the real income of railways comes from Cargo,not passenger activity. There are already trains running on all sustainable routes.

The government must invest to improve the railway tracks for speed up to 140-160km/hr and restrain other services to at least 30% slower service to make it look attractive product in the market.

The whole track needs replacement, from Lahore to Karachi. The track refurbishment would require a bailout of railway from government.

In UK you buy a train ticket for about 1200~ rupees and take unlimited journeys of underground and overground trains and buses all across London. You spend about 3500 rupees to travel the distance similar to Lahore and Karachi on buses or less than 10,000 on trains which will take you at the speed of over 200-300km per hour and cut your journey to less than half as compared to buses or private car.

You're comparing a metro service with intercity one. I would be surprised if a travel between London and say vienna costs 1200 PKR.

In UK I have travelled to Norway from London (return journey) for only 1500 rupees with total distance longer than Karachi and Lahore and in Pakistan it costs 10 times more despite being cheap country as compared to west and they are still incurring losses. The bitter reality of our country

On promotional tickets, I can grant you that but regular trains wouldn't cost that cheap..

 

[Shan-e-ibrahim]

inauguration is okay, but what about the maintenance?

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Just With addition of wifi he gave new name for train. Wifi is nice addition.

 

[SBD-3]

inauguration is okay, but what about the maintenance?

True that is the real test.

 

[OrionHunter]

Well Samma Showing that where People didn't got Tea and Wifi is not working well

South Asians in general crib too much! Didn't get tea? So what's the big deal? There will always be teething problems that would be sorted out gradually. However, the railways should have had a test run without passengers and made sure everything is working well.

 

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