Classic route
Vivek Express
Dibrugarh → Kanyakumari · India
Vivek Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 4,154 km
- Fastest time
- 3 days
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- LHB superfast rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2011
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
India’s longest train journey: 4,154 km and roughly 75 hours from Assam’s tea country to the subcontinent’s southern tip.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11299100 (1,660 km), relation 19874759 (557 km) — 2,218 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 76.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 38 m); the longest stretch away from it is 25 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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