Indian Railways Clears Two New MEMU Services for Meerut City

The correct answer is Meerut City. The two newly sanctioned MEMU services both begin or end at Meerut City: one pair links it with Khurja and runs as Train No. 64573/64574, and the other links it with Saharanpur and runs as Train No. 64580/64579. Both trains will have commercial stoppages at every station on their route, so the benefit is spread across the whole section rather than the end points alone. Ghaziabad is wrong because no new service in this approval starts or terminates there, even though it lies in the same region of western Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is wrong for the same reason: it is not one of the three stations named in the approval. Bareilly is wrong as well, since neither of the two pairs touches it; the stations named are Meerut City, Khurja and Saharanpur only.

The correct answer is 64573. In the pair sanctioned for the Khurja section, Train No. 64573 runs from Khurja to Meerut City, leaving Khurja at 13:15 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 17:20 hrs, a journey of 4 hours 5 minutes. Option A is wrong because 64579 is the Meerut City to Saharanpur service, which leaves Meerut City at 17:45 hrs and reaches Saharanpur at 20:40 hrs. Option B is wrong because 64580 is the Saharanpur to Meerut City service in the morning, leaving at 05:50 hrs and arriving at 08:10 hrs. Option D is wrong because no such number appears in the approval; the four numbers announced are 64573, 64574, 64580 and 64579. Note also that the return leg of the Khurja service is 64574, which leaves Meerut City at 11:25 hrs and reaches Khurja at 16:00 hrs.

The correct answer is Saharanpur to Meerut City. That leg, run by Train No. 64580, covers the distance in 2 hours 20 minutes, departing Saharanpur at 05:50 hrs and arriving at Meerut City at 08:10 hrs, making it the quickest of the four legs approved. Option B is wrong because the Meerut City to Khurja leg, Train No. 64574, is in fact the slowest at 4 hours 35 minutes, from 11:25 hrs to 16:00 hrs. Option C is wrong because the Khurja to Meerut City leg, Train No. 64573, takes 4 hours 5 minutes. Option D is wrong because the Meerut City to Saharanpur leg, Train No. 64579, takes 2 hours 55 minutes, which is quick but still longer than the morning run from Saharanpur. A MEMU rake is chosen for such sections because it accelerates quickly between closely spaced halts.