Night train route
Island Express
Bengaluru → Kanniyakumari · India
- Distance
- 929 km
- Fastest time
- 18 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- WAP-7 express rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1940
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Kerala’s workhorse since 1940: overnight from Bengaluru’s plateau down the palm-and-backwater coast to the subcontinent’s southernmost station at Kanniyakumari.
How this line was checked
- The 630 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 19874759 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 40 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 21 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 949 m of every station 16526 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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