Rlys carry more freight traffic between Apr’09-Jan’10

The Indian Railways carried 730.96 million tonnes of freight during April 2009 to January 2010 vis-à-vis the 681.28 million tonnes during the previous term, thus registering an increase of 7.29 percent.

In January 2010 alone, the Railways transported revenue earning traffic of 78.33 million tonnes, recording an increase of 3.78 million tonnes over the actual freight traffic of 74.55 million tonnes during the same period last year, showing an increase of 5.07 percent.