Night train route
Duronto Express
Mumbai → Kolkata (Howrah) · India
Duronto Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,968 km
- Fastest time
- 27 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 72 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- LHB AC rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2009
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An all-AC, near-non-stop “Duronto” linking India’s two biggest cities across the central heartland in about 27 hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 3816685 (411 km), relation 5700055 (570 km) — 981 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 87.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 23.5 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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