Bidar – Kolhapur Shri Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Terminus Express was an Weekly Express Train which ran Between

Bidar Bidar (/ biːd̪ər/) is a city in the north-eastern part of Karnataka state in India. It is the headquarters of Bidar district, which borders Maharashtra and Telangana. It is a rapidly urbanising city in the wider ''Bidar Metropolitan area ...

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Kolhapur district. In, around 2 C.E. Kolapur's name was 'Kuntal'. Kolhapur is kn ...

section which comes under the

South Central Railway zone The South Central Railway (abbreviated SCR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. The jurisdiction of the zone is spread over the states of Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh. It has three divisions under its administrati ...

Central Railway zone Central Railway (abbreviated CR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Railways. Its headquarters is in Mumbai at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. It has the distinction of operating the first passenger railway line in India, which opened from ...

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

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State in India. This train has been permanently cancelled in ZBTT.

Overview

This train was inaugurated on 8 June 2018, Flagged off by Dhananjay Mahadik an MP of Kolhapur with Central Railway for Direct connectivity between Southern parts of Maharashtra and Northern part of Karnataka. Inaugurated as weekly special train after 20 June 2018, due to the huge Demand for this route its converted into regular weekly train service.

Routes

This train passed through , , & on both sides.Indian Railways
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Traction

As this route is not electrified so

WDM 3A The Indian locomotive class WDM-3A is a class of diesel–electric locomotive that was developed in 1993 by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW), Varanasi for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Diesel (D), Mixed traffic (M) ...

pulled the train on both directions.

References

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