Mumbai gets a new Rajdhani train

The Mumbai-Delhi route has always been a cash cow for the railways with passenger volumes swelling every year.

The Mumbai-Delhi route has always been a cash cow for the railways with passenger volumes swelling every year.

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Now, Northern Railway has launched another Special Rajdhani train from New Delhi to Mumbai Central to run twice a week. It will depart from New Delhi every Tuesday and Saturday.

The train - a clone of Rajdhani expresses - will take around 20 hours to travel the distance.

Before this, the railways had introduced three Rajdhani Special trains this year - two from Hazrat Nizamuddin and a weekly one from New Delhi.

“The pressure on this sector is increasing. This sector is important for the business traveler as much as for tourists,” said a senior Northern Railway official.

This year, the Delhi-Guwahati route, one of the longest sectors of the railways, had a Delhi-Guwahati Rajdhani bi-weekly special train that ran packed to brim.

“We were encouraged by the response as we knew there was always takers for this kind of a product.”

The train 0901 Mumbai Central-New Delhi Special Rajdhani Express train will depart from Mumbai Central every Monday and Friday from December 28 till January 11, 2010, at 3.45 p.m. to reach New Delhi at 10.20 a.m. the next day.

On return, train 0902 New Delhi-Mumbai Special Rajdhani Express will depart from New Delhi every Tuesday and Saturday from December 29, 2009, to January 12, 2010, at 3.25 p.m. to arrive at Mumbai Central at 11.25 a.m. the next day.

The train will stop at Surat, Vadodara, Ratlam and Kota stations.