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Monday, January 24, 2011

New train for Lucknow division


Lucknow division will get a new train from Tuesday. The train no. 14213/14214 Varanasi-Gonda Intercity Express will start operating from Varanasi on Tuesday. The train was announced in the rail budget this year. It will depart from Varanasi at 14:15 hrs and reach Gonda at 19:45 hrs. While, it will depart from Gonda at 6:55 hrs and reach Varanasi at 12:20 hrs. The train will have stoppages at Shahganj, Ayodhya and Mankapur. The composition of the train comprise AC chair car, general and SLR coaches.

Train no. 12143/12144 Sultanpur-LTT Superfast Express is another new train to start on Tuesday which would start operation from Mumbai. The new railway time table which came into force from July 1, 2010 has details of timings and frequency of new trains included. The time table shows three new train services for Lucknow division. Train nos. 12143/12144 LTT-Sultanpur (weekly) superfast express via Kanpur, 19603/19604 Ajmer-Sultanpur (weekly) Express via Moradabad and 14213/14214 Varanasi-Gonda Intercity Express (daily). Train nos. 12143/12144 and 14213/14214 are starting on Tuesday. The date of introduction is still to be decided for train no. 19603/19604.