Heritage route
Fairy Queen Express
Delhi → Alwar · India
Fairy Queen Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 143 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h
- Average speed
- 29 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- 1855 Fairy Queen steam locomotive, heritage saloon
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1997
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hauled by the 1855 Fairy Queen, the world’s oldest working steam locomotive, on a heritage run from Delhi out to the tiger country around Alwar.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11141189 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 64 m of every station 12015 calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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