Luxury route
Deccan Odyssey
Mumbai → Mumbai · India
Deccan Odyssey in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,200 km
- Fastest time
- 8 days
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- MTDC · Indian Railways
- Train
- luxury saloon rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2004
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Maharashtra’s answer to the Palace on Wheels: a blue-liveried luxury rake looping the Konkan coast to the Ajanta and Ellora caves.
How this line was checked
- The 491 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 337228 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 92.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 38 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Indian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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