Central Railway Administration has announced Diwali Festival Specials in order to decongest the trains running on Konkan route during the Diwali holiday season. These include LTT-Savantwadi, Sawantwadi-Panvel, LTT-Kochuveli festival specials. Apart from the LTT-Kochuveli Festival, reservations for other 3 festival special trains will be opened from September 11, so the chakarmanyas have got relief. Special running on Fridays on 18th, 25th October, 1st and 8th November will leave LTT at 8.20 am and reach Sawantwadi at 9 pm on the same day. On the return journey, it will leave Sawantwadi at 10.20 pm and reach LTT at 10.40 am the next day. Special of 20 LHB coaches will stop at Thane, Panvel, Pen, Roha, Mangaon, Veer, Khed, Chiplun, Sawarde, Aravali, Sangameshwar, Ratnagiri, Advali, Vilavede, Rajapur, Vaibhavwadi, Nandgaon, Kankavali, Sindhudurg, Kudal stations.01175/01176 Pune – 8 rounds of Sawantwadi Festival Special will be run. Every Tuesday between 22nd and 29th October and 5th and 12th November, the special will depart from Pune at 9.35 am and arrive at 10.30 pm on the same day. Will reach at Sawantwadi. On the return journey, the Wednesday special running between 23, 30 October and 6, 13 November will leave Sawantwadi at 11.25 pm and reach Pune at 12.15 am the next day. Special of 20 LHB coaches will stop at Lonavla, Kalyan, Panvel, Roha, Khed, Chiplun, Sangameshwar, Ratnagiri, Rajapur, Sindhudurg, Kudal stations. Sawantwadi-Panvel weekly special No. 01178/01177 will run every Tuesday between 22nd, 29th October and 5th, 12th November. will run 11.25 pm from Sawantwadi. 8.40 a.m. the next day after departure. Will reach Panvel.