India, May 18 -- The Indian Railways has approved the regularisation of the Bhanjapur-Puri-Bhanjapur special trains into regular express services to provide better travel convenience to the passengers.

Accordingly, Train No. 08011/08012 Bhanjapur-Puri-Bhanjapur Special will now operate as Train No. 18017/18018 Bhanjapur-Puri-Bhanjapur Express. The regular services will commence from Bhanjapur in Baripada on May 21 and from Puri on May 22.

Train No. 18017 Bhanjapur-Puri Express will depart from Bhanjapur at 11:10 pm and arrive at Puri at 5:50 am the following day. In the return direction, Train No. 18018 Puri-Bhanjapur Express will leave Puri at 11:50 pm and reach Bhanjapur at 6:50 am the next morning.

"Since their introduction as speci...