India, March 12 -- Fresh meals served on some premium long-distance trains were hit on Wednesday, even as fried snacks at suburban stations will likely disappear from railway stalls. The Indian Railways have begun to feel the impact of the LPG squeeze due to the war in West Asia.

Sources in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) said its cloud kitchen at Sewri, which prepares meals for 4,500 passengers on the Central and Western railways, daily, was unable to cook as they ran out of LPG.

The Sewri cloud kitchen supplies meals to premium trains such as Vande Bharat Express, Rajdhani Express, Duronto Express, Shatabdi, and Tejas Express. Railway officials said that as back-up, they stocked ready-to-eat food items in t...