Luxury route
Palace on Wheels
Delhi → Delhi · India
- Distance
- 2,300 km
- Fastest time
- 8 days
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- RTDC · Indian Railways
- Train
- saloon rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1982
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
India’s original luxury train (1982): a week-long Rajasthan circuit in carriages styled on the private saloons of the maharajas.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 76.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 26 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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