Jammu Division of Northern Railway is continuously operating parcel trains for apples from Kashmir to Delhi. Which was started on 11 September 2025 with two parcel van coaches. These two parcel van coaches, one of which was sent to Jammu and the other to Adarsh Nagar Delhi. About 23 tonnes of goods were loaded in each parcel van coach, a Railway official said on Saturday.
It has been considered as a historic achievement, as one parcel van coach reached Adarsh Nagar Delhi from Budgam railway station in less than 21 hours and the second parcel van coach reached Jammu in less than 06 hours, the operation of parcel trains operated by the railways has been highly appreciated by the people of the country, the world and the traders and fruit growers of Kashmir. With this, the JPP -RCS parcel train service will depart from Badgam Railway Station to Adarsh Nagar Delhi on 15 September 2025. It has 8 parcel van coaches and the weight capacity per coach is 23 tonnes.
The first consignment of this train has been fully booked by traders and fruit growers and the second consignment from Badgam to Adarsh Nagar Delhi on 16 September 2025 is also fully booked. Today, on 13 September 2025, the JPP- RCS parcel van train successfully departed from Adarsh Nagar Delhi to Badgam at 12:10 pm, carrying various types of materials for Badgam such as textiles, clothing courier goods, auto parts, decorative items and other white goods.
Continuing and moving forward in this success, today on 13 September 2025, an apple goods train with 10 BCN wagons has been operated from Anantnag Railway Station of the valley to Adarsh Nagar Delhi. In which three wagons will go only till Bari Brahmana (Jammu) and 07 wagons will go till Adarsh Nagar Delhi.
Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Uchit Singhal, while emphasizing on these achievements, said that “This is a unique initiative by the Railways for the traders and fruit producers, due to this initiative the economy of Jammu Kashmir will get a boost and all the small, medium and large fruit producing traders of the valley will get equal opportunities.