As announced in last Railway Budget and with an aim to provide more passengers comfort to the commuters, Railways have decided to introduce a new tri-weekly Duronto Express between Sealdah and Puriw.e.f. 12th February 2012. on the inaugural day, this train will run as a special train from Sealdah to Puri on open fast timings. However, the regular service of this train will commence w.e.f. 14th February 2012 from Puri and w.e.f. 15thFeb’2012 from Sealdah as per scheduled timings.
22202 Puri-Sealdah Duronto tri-weekly Express will leave Puri on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 19.50hrs and will arrive at Sealdah at 04.00hrs on the next day’s w.e.f. 14th February 2012. In the return direction, 22201 Sealdah-Puri tri-weekly Duronto Express will leave Sealdah on every Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 20.00hrs and will arrive at Puri at 04.00hrs on the next day’s w.e.f. 15th February 2012.
This train will have one AC-2 tier, 04 AC-3 tiers, 07 Sleeper Classes and 02 Guard cum Luggage Vans in its composition having no commercial stoppage en-route.