Luxury route
Maharajas’ Express
Delhi → Delhi · India
Maharajas’ Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 2,400 km
- Fastest time
- 7 days
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- IRCTC
- Train
- IRCTC luxury rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2010
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
IRCTC’s rolling palace: a week-long royal loop from Delhi through Ranthambore’s tigers, champagne breakfast beside the Taj, and evening prayers on the Ganges.
How this line was checked
- The 776 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13014031 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 19 m); the longest stretch away from it is 13 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: IRCTC — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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