Night train route
Howrah Rajdhani
New Delhi → Kolkata · India
Howrah Rajdhani in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 1,447 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 17 h
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- LHB Rajdhani rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1969
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
India’s first Rajdhani (1969): the all-air-conditioned overnight flagship racing the Grand Chord from the capital to Kolkata, dinner and bedrolls at your berth.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11160959 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 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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