Scenic route
Konkan Railway
Mumbai → Mangalore · India
Konkan Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 914 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 16 h
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- Vande Bharat · Matsyagandha Express
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1998
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Monsoon country: 2,000 bridges and 91 tunnels down the palm-fringed cliffs of India’s west coast, the full run from Mumbai to Mangalore.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 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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