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Mamata Budget offers 57 new trains

July 03, 2009 14:45 IST

Fifty-seven new trains were proposed by the railways minister Mamata Banerjee as she presented the Railway Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Friday. These are:

1.                   Vishakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Mumbai Superfast (bi-weekly).

2.                   Sriganga Nagar-Delhi-Nanded Superfast (weekly)

3.                   New Jalpaiguri-Sealdah Superfast (tri-weekly)

4.                   Bangalore-Hubli-Solapur Superfast (tri-weekly)

5.                   Howrah-Bangalore Superfast (weekly)

6.                   Pune-Daund-Solapur Superfast (daily)

7.                   Ranchi-Howrah (3 days via Ghatshila-Kharagpur and 3 days via Asansol) intercity (6 days a week)

8.                   Kamakhya-Puri Express (weekly)

9.                   Jabalpur-Ambikapur Express (tri-weekly)

10.               Gandhidham-Howrah Superfast (weekly)

11.               Delhi-Sadulpur Express (tri-weekly)

12.               Ajmer-Bhopal Express (by intergration of 9655/56 Ajmer-Ratlam and 9303/04 Ratlam- Bhopal express trains) (Daily)

13.               Bilaspur-Tirunelveli Jn. (Thiruvananthapuram) Superfast (weekly)

14.               Mumbai-Karwar Superfast (tri-weekly)

15.               Durg-Jaipur Express (weekly)

16.               Dibrugarh Town-Chandigarh Express (weekly)

17.               Delhi-Farakka Express (bi-weekly)

18.               Hazrat Nizmmudin-Bangalore Rajdhani Express (tri-weekly) via Kacheguda

19.               New Jalpaiguri-Delhi Express (bi-weekly) via Barauni

20.               Mumbai-Varanasi Superfast (daily)

21.               Mysore-Yesvantpur Express (daily)

22.               Koraput-Rourkela Express (daily) via Rayagada

23.               Agra-Ajmer Intercity Superfast (daily)

24.               Mumbai-Jodhpur-Bikaner Superfast (bi-weekly)

25.               Agra-Lucknow Junction Intercity (daily)

26.               Hapa-Tirunelveli Jn. Superfast (bi-weekly) via Thiruananthapuram

27.               Gwalior-Bhopal Intercity Express (5 days a week) via Guna

28.               Kanyakumari-Rameshwaram Express (tri-weekly) via Madurai

29.               Howrah-Haridwar Superfast (5 days a week)

30.               Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Superfast (daily)

31.               Gorakhpur-Mumbai Superfast (daily)

32.               New Delh-Guwahati Rajdhani Express (weekly) via Muzaffarpur

33.               Veraval-Mumbai Link Service (daily)

34.               Ranchi-Patna Jan Shatabadi Express (daily)

35.               Jhansi-Chhindwara Express (bi-weekly) via Bina-Bhopal

36.               Mumbai-Jodhpur Express (weekly)

37.               Jamalpur-Gaya Passenger (daily)

38.               Jhajha-Patna MEMU (daily)

39.               Kanpur-New Delhi Shatabdi Express (6 days a week)

40.               Bhopal-Lucknow-Pratapgarh Superfast (weekly)

41.               Lucknow-Rae Bareli-Bangalore Superfast (weekly)

42.               Shimoga-Bangalore Intercity Express (daily)

43.               Mdurai-Chennai Express (bi-weekly)

44.               Guwahati-New Cooch Behar Express Intercity (daily)

45.               Balurghat-New Jalpaiguri Express (daily) via Kishanganj

46.               Alipurduar-New Delhi Jalpaiguri Express Intercity (daily) via Siliguri

47.               Dharmanagar-Agartala Fast Passenger (daily)

48.               Rewari-Phulera Passenger (daily) via Ringus

49.               Shoranur-Nilambur Road Passenger (daily)

50.               Coimbator-Shoranur Passenger (daily)

51.               Mathura-Kasganj Passenger (daily)

52.               Farakka-Katwa-Azimganj-Nawadwip Dham Express (daily)

53.               Bangalore-Kochuveli Superfast (weekly)

54.               Kolkata-Rampurhat Express (daily)

55.               New Jalpaiguri-Digha Express (weekly)

56.               Purulia-Howrah Express (Bi-weekly)

57.               Kolkata-Bikaner Express (weekly) via Nagore

-- PIB