Classic route
Swarna Shatabdi
Delhi → Amritsar · India
- Distance
- 448 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 72 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- WAP-7 · LHB rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1994
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Swarna Shatabdi day train (1994) speeds from the capital to the Golden Temple city of Amritsar in a shade over six hours.
How this line was checked
- The 248 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5561601 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- 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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