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Faster And Cheaper Mumbai-Delhi Special Rajdhani Express Launched
LHB coaches on the Mumbai August Kranti Rajdhani Express (Superfast1111/Wikimedia Commons)
The Railways has flagged off a faster Mumbai-Delhi Special Rajdhani Express service from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin station on an experimental basis.
The thrice-weekly service without flexi-fares will cover a distance of 1,365 km in 13 hours 55 minutes instead of 15 hours 50 minutes. The train will stop at Kota, Vadodara and Surat railway stations only before reaching the Bandra Terminus in Mumbai.
Railway officials said the new service has been introduced on an experimental basis for three months to gauge the response of the public to a concept of a flat increase in fares against existing flexi-fare.
The express train will comprise 18 coaches including one first AC, two 2AC and twelve 3ACs and one pantry car. The train has been hauled by two WAP5 locomotives of 5,400 horsepower each to increase the maximum speed of the train to 130 kmph.
The fares would be 20 per cent more than the base fares for the existing New Delhi-Mumbai Central Rajdhani without any flexi fare.
The fare for Special Rajdhani in 3rd AC and 2nd AC will be around 19 per cent cheaper than the maximum flexi fare of 3rd AC in the existing Mumbai Rajdhani.
The train will depart from Hazrat Nizamuddin on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays while it will leave Bandra Terminus on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 4.15 pm and reach Hazrat Nizamuddin at 6.10 am.
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