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Duronto Express

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Delhi Duronto, as it rolls out of Sealdah.
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Duronto Express ("Rebel" or "rebellious" or "Restless" in a positive way) is a category of long distance trains run by the Indian Railways. The special feature of these trains is that they run non-stop from source to destination, barring technical halts. All Duronto Express trains can be easily recognised by the characteristic yellow-green livery of their passenger coaches. Several Duronto Express services connect the metros and major state capitals of India. The Duronto Express trains are projected to be the fastest trains between the particular pair of cities they serve, although this is not necessarily true for all services.

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History

Since several years, the Government of India's Ministry of Railways (India) has been trying to introduce high speed rail in India. In 2007, the ministry chose the 500-kilometre stretch between Delhi and Amritsar for a pre-feasibility study.[1] The cost for setting up the Delhi-Amritsar corridor is estimated to be around Rs 250 billion. On 19 January 2009, the former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said that his ministry was in the process of appointing global consultants for introducing the high-speed trains on certain routes.Besides the Delhi-Amritsar route, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijaywada-Chennai, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam and Howrah-Haldia.[2] But, this High Speed rail service for India is expected to be completed on a long run.
Meanwhile, the then Railway minister of India, Mamata Banerjee announced the introduction of the non-stop Duronto Express trains in the Indian Rail budget 2009–10 as a first step towards high speed rail travel in India.[3] The first Duronto ran between Sealdah and New Delhi.

Efficiency and Speed

The Duronto Expresses are one of the fastest trains in India. These trains run faster than Rajdhani Express[4] trains which hold the record of the fastest long-distance trains in India.This has been made possible as these trains, unlike the Rajdhani Express, will have no intermediate stoppages and run in much the same speed clocked by Rajdhani.For example, the new bi-weekly non-stop train between New Delhi and Sealdah will take 16 hours to cover the journey, as against 17 hours taken by Rajdhani Express.The trains will, however, have technical stoppages at a few stations for facilitating staff and loco change but the transit time will come down drastically.The trains will adhere to the speed limit of 110 km/h {non-stop}.[5] The Chennai, Ernakulam and Pune Duronto run at a speed of 130 km/h.[6] Also, the Duronto trains were known to be much cheaper than the Rajdhanis while they run faster and are more efficient than the Rajdhanis. They also had AC three tier-Economy coaches which are Air conditioned coaches with sleeping berths, now present only in Garib Rath Trains. Berths are usually arranged as in 3AC but with three tiers across the width and three longways. They were slightly less well-appointed, usually no reading lights or curtained off gangways. Bedding is usually excluded from fare and was available with a payment of INR25 (46¢ US) per passenger. However, these coaches were soon suspended and the Duronto trains had no Economy coaches after that. In March 2011, the cost of travel in the Duronto Express too went up as Dinesh Trivedi from the Trinamool Congress became the first Minister of Railways to announces a hike in railway fare. The decision to hike railway fares resulted in trouble across the Government and were rolled back,[7] only to be raised again on 1 April.[8] A feature exclusive to the Duronto was the LHB Sleeper coach. The sleeper class is the most common coach, and usually ten or more coaches could be attached. These are regular sleeping coaches with three berths vertically stacked. In broad gauge, it carries 72 passengers per coach in regular ICF coaches and 78 berths in the new LHB coaches that the Duronto trains have.

List of Duronto Express trains

The Duronto trains are to ply between the metro cities of India. During the inaugural announcement of these services in the Railway Budget 2009–10 (made on 3 July 2009), 12 weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly Duronto trains[9] were announced. In the next rail budget of 24 February 2010, ten more Duronto were announced.[10] The trains, though announced in a chronological order, were not introduced accordingly. Some trains, like the Visakhapatnam Duronto, have been postponed for a whole year. The introduction of the Duronto Express trains depends on many factors. The availability of coaches is one of the primary factors involved.
There are currently 33 active Duronto services running in India. The following is a current list of Duronto trains between cities in India. The services mentioned in red are either terminated or converted to other services. While the numbers indicate when the trains were announced, the way they are arranged in the list indicates the order in which they were actually flagged off.
Service Train number Train name Source Departure Destination Arrival
1 12213 Sarai Rohilla Duronto Yesvantpur Junction 23:40 Delhi Sarai Rohilla 06:50
12214 Delhi Sarai Rohilla 23:00 Yesvantpur Junction 07:30
2 12219 Secunderabad Duronto Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 23:05 Secunderabad Junction 11:05
12220 Secunderabad Junction 23:05 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 11:05
3 12221 Howrah Duronto Pune Junction 15:15 Howrah Junction 19:40
12222 Howrah Junction 08:20 Pune Junction 11:35
4 12223 Ernakulam Duronto Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 20:50 Ernakulam Junction 17:45
12224 Ernakulam Junction 21:30 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 18:15
5 12227 Indore Duronto Mumbai Central 23:15 Indore Junction 11:15
12228 Indore Junction 23:00 Mumbai Central 11:50
6 12239 Jaipur Duronto Mumbai Central 23:15 Jaipur 13:55
12240 Jaipur 19:15 Mumbai Central 12:05
7 12241 Amritsar Duronto Chandigarh 19:00 Amritsar Junction 23:15
12242 Amritsar Junction 05:25 Chandigarh 09:30
8 12243 Coimbatore Duronto Chennai Central 07:15 Coimbatore Junction 13:55
12244 Coimbatore Junction 15:05 Chennai Central 21:50
9 12245 Yesvantpur Duronto Howrah Junction 11:00 Yesvantpur Junction 16:00
12246 Yesvantpur Junction 11:15 Howrah Junction 16:00
10 12259 Delhi Duronto Sealdah 18:40 New Delhi 11:00
12260 New Delhi 20:05 Sealdah 12:25
11 12261 Howrah Chattrapati Shivaji Duronto Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 17:15 Howrah Junction 19:40
12262 Howrah Junction 08:20 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 10:30
12 12263 Nizamuddin Duronto Pune Junction 11:10 Hazrat Nizamuddin 07:15
12264 Hazrat Nizamuddin 11:00 Pune Junction 07:00
13 12265 Jammu Duronto Delhi Sarai Rohilla 22:15 Jammu Tawi 07:10
12266 Jammu Tawi 19:25 Delhi Sarai Rohilla 04:00
14 12267 Ahmedabad Duronto Mumbai Central 23:25 Ahmedabad Junction 06:00
12268 Ahmedabad Junction 23:45 Mumbai Central 06:15
15 12269 Chennai Duronto Chennai Central 06:40 Hazrat Nizamuddin 10:35
12270 Hazrat Nizamuddin 15:50 Chennai Central 20:10
16 12271 Lucknow Duronto Lucknow Charbagh 23:30 New Delhi 07:30
12272 New Delhi 23:30 Lucknow Charbagh 07:10
17 12273 Kolkata Duronto Howrah Junction 13:00 New Delhi 06:05
12274 New Delhi 13:00 Howrah Junction 06:00
18 12275 Allahabad Duronto Allahabad Junction 22:40 New Delhi 06:05
12276 New Delhi 23:00 Allahabad Junction 06:20
19 12277 Puri Duronto Howrah Junction 14:25 Puri 21:40
12278 Puri 06:30 Howrah Junction 13:45
20 12281 Bhubaneshwar Duronto Bhubaneswar 08:10 New Delhi 06:05
12282 New Delhi 13:00 Bhubaneswar 11:05
21 12283 Kochi Duronto Ernakulam Junction 23:30 Hazrat Nizamuddin 19:30
12284 Hazrat Nizamuddin 21:35 Ernakulam Junction 15:30
22 12285 Hyderabad Duronto Secunderabad Junction 13:30 Hazrat Nizamuddin 10:35
12286 Hazrat Nizamuddin 15:50 Secunderabad Junction 14:00
23 12289 Nagpur Duronto Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus 20:15 Nagpur 07:15
12290 Nagpur 20:50 Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus 07:50
24 12293 Lokmanya Tilak Duronto Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 17:25 Allahabad Junction 12:25
12294 Allahabad Junction 19:30 Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 14:50
25 12297 Pune Duronto Ahmedabad Junction 22:30 Pune Junction 07:00
12298 Pune Junction 21:45 Ahmedabad Junction 06:20
26 12847 Digha Duronto Howrah Junction 11:15 Digha 14:15
12848 Digha 15:35 Howrah Junction 18:35
27 22201 Sealdah Duronto Sealdah 20:00 Puri 04:00
22202 Puri 19:50 Sealdah 04:00
28 22203 Visakhapatnam Duronto Visakhapatnam Junction 22:30 Secunderabad Junction 08:00
22204 Secunderabad Junction 20:30 Visakhapatnam Junction 06:05
29 22205 Madurai Duronto Chennai Central 22:30 Mon,Wed Madurai Junction 07:00 Tue,Thu
22206 Madurai Junction 22:40 Tue,Thu Chennai Central 07:10 Wed,Fri
30 22207 Trivandrum Duronto Chennai Central 16:30 Trivandrum Central 05:15
22208 Trivandrum Central 21:40 Chennai Central 10:15
31 22209 Mumbai Duronto Mumbai Central 23:15 New Delhi 16:55
22210 New Delhi 23:30 Mumbai Central 17:00
32 22211 Ajmer Duronto Ajmer 05:50 Hazrat Nizamuddin 12:35
22212 Hazrat Nizamuddin 15:10 Ajmer 21:50
33 22213 Patna Duronto Shalimar 22:05 Patna Junction 06:40
22214 Patna Junction 20:40 Shalimar 05:40
33 52451 Shivalik Deluxe Express Kalka 05:30 Simla 10:15
52452 Simla 17:40 Kalka 22:25
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