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A large number of Lord Ram devotees boarded the 'Aastha Special Train' from Jalandhar on Friday. Devotees are on their way to Ayodhya Dham to worship Lord Ram at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.

Before the train left, passengers raised Lord Shri Ram slogans, filling the entire railway station with echoes of his chants.

Meanwhile, another Aastha special train left Thiruvananthapuram's Kochuveli railway station for Ayodhya at 10 AM on Friday.

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O Rajagopal, BJP leader and former Minister of State for Railways, flagged off the train, which had 103 passengers on board.

A total of 972 people have booked travel. The train carried 103 passengers from Thiruvananthapuram and 111 passengers from Kochuveli station.

The first Aastha Special Train to transport the first group of Ram devotees to Ayodhya departed from Hyderabad's Secunderabad Railway Station earlier on Monday.

Around 1,346 devotees boarded the train. Chants of 'Jai Sri Ram' reverberated throughout Secunderabad Railway Station.

Devotees traveling to the newly constructed Ram Mandir in Ayodhya for the darshan of Ram Lalla have been transported by the special Aastha train service.

Each Aastha train has twenty sleeper coaches, according to the Railways. Approximately 1,400 people can fit on one train.

Following the January 22 Ram Temple consecration ceremony, the Indian Railways is operating over 200 Aastha special trains to Ayodhya from a number of cities and tier 1 and tier 2 towns throughout India.