Classic route
Grand Trunk Express
Delhi → Chennai · India
Grand Trunk Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,180 km
- Fastest time
- 33 h
- Average speed
- 66 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- LHB sleeper & AC coaches, WAP-7 electric
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1929
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Running since 1929, the “GT” hauls down the spine of India through Bhopal and Nagpur to Chennai: 2,180 km in a day and a half.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 9097192 (715 km), relation 5699337 (434 km) — 1,149 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 88.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 11 m); the longest stretch away from it is 16 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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