As announced in last Railway Budget for running of a weekly express train between Visakhapatnam & Digha and to provide better facilities to the commuters, Railways have decided to introduce a new train between Visakhapatnam & Digha w.e.f. from 17thFebruary 2012.
On the inaugural run, Digha-Visakhapatnam-Digha weekly Express will be inaugurated from Ramnagar Station and will run as a special train on open fast times towards Visakhapatnam. However, the regular service of 22874/22873 Visakhapatnam-Digha-VisakhapatnamExpress will commence from Visakhapatnam w.e.f. 23rd Feb’12 & from Digha w.e.f. 24thFeb’2012.
22874/22873Visakhapatnam-Digha-Visakhapatnam Weekly Superfast Express will leave Visakhapatnam at 17.50hrs on every Thursday w.e.f. 23rdFeb’2012 and will arrive at Digha at 09.30hrs on the next days. In the return direction, this train will leave Digha at 17.15hrs on every Friday w.e.f. 24thFeb’2012 and will arrive at Visakhapatnam at 08.20hrs on the following days.
This train has one AC-2 tier, one AC-3 tier, SixSleeper Class Coaches, Six General Second Class Coaches and Two Guard cum Luggage Vans in its composition having stoppages at Vizianagaram, Palasa, Brahmapur, Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jaleswar, Kharagpur, Panskura, Tamluk and Kanthi between Visakhapatnam & Digha.