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Monday, November 21, 2011

Longest And Ahortest Train Route in India

f u r asking longest run (time) for a particular train then obviously answer is himsagar express...ie;...Longest run (time): The Vivek Express running between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari, It covers its route of 4286km in 82 hours and 30  minutes and rather than this u can find ur answer from these information.....
Interesting Facts about Indian Railways
Shortest station name: Ib near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway.

Longest station name: Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta often prefixed with Sri. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway.

Longest run (time): The Vivek Express running between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari, It covers its route of 4286km in 82 hours and 30 minutes which started its service on 19th November 2011.

Longest run for daily train: The Kerala Express has daily service and covers 3054 km in its run (in 42.5 hours).

Longest non-stop run (distance): The Trivandrum Rajdhani does not have a technical halt at Ratlam and, therefore, travels non-stop between Vadodara and Kota (528km), covering the stretch in about 6.5 hours.

Trains with no commercial halts en route: Sampoorna Kranti Exp,Howrah Rajdhani, Bombay Rajdhani, Pragati Exp and Pune Shatabdi

Shortest runs: Nagpur - Ajni has scheduled services that are just 3km in distance. This is mainly a service for crew to travel from Nagpur station to the workshop at Ajni.

Highest number of halts: Mail and Express trains [3/99] The Howrah-Amritsar Exp. leads in this category with 115 halts.

Busiest Station: Lucknow which caters to as many as 64 trains per day.

Stations straddling state lines: Navapur is a station that is half in Maharashtra and half in Gujarat . Bhawani Mandi station, on the Shamgarh-Kota section of the Bombay-Delhi line is half in Madhya Pradesh and half in Rajasthan.

Station with all the three gauges: Siliguri station

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