Wednesday, January 15, 2014

NEW BI-WEEKLY AC TRAIN BETWEEN SANTRAGACHHI (KOLKATA) & CHENNAI

As announced in last Railway Budget for running of a bi-weekly AC Express train towards Chennai from Santragachhi (Kolkata), Ministry of Railways has decided to introduce Santragachhi-Chennai AC Express w.e.f. 15th January 2014 from Santragachhi.

22807 Santragachhi-Chennai Central bi-weekly AC Express will leave Santragachhi at 1900 hrs on every Tuesday & Friday and will arrive at Chennai Central at 2245 hrs on every Wednesday & Saturdays. In the return direction, 22808 Chennai Central-Santragachhi bi-weekly AC Express will leave Chennai Central at 0745 hrs on every Thursday & Sunday and will arrive at Santragachhi at 1025 hrs on every Friday & Monday.

This train has one AC First Class, Four AC-2 tiers, Ten AC-3 tiers, Two Guard cum Generator Van and one Pantry Car in its composition  having stoppages at Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, o­ngole, Nellore & Gudur between Santragachhi & Chennai Central.

The inaugural run of this train will commence from Santragachhi o­n 15th January 2014. However, the regular service of this train will commence w.e.f. 21st January 2014 from Santragachhi and w.e.f. 23rd January 2014 from Chennai Central.