The 12759 / 12760 Charminar Express is a very popular train operating between the metropolitan cities,

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

and

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

. From November 2020, it was extended to instead of having additional stoppage at , without touching Chennai Central. Now it runs between Chennai Tambaram and via Chennai Egmore.

Train schedule

Charminar is one of the most prestigious trains of SCR, with 24 coaches (first 24-coacher of SCR). After it got its LHB rakes it was reduced to 22 coaches. *Train number 12759 runs from Chennai Tambaram to Hyderabad. It departs from Tambaram (TBM) at 17.10 Hrs and arrives at Hyderabad Deccan Nampally Station (HYB) at 07.50 Hrs the next day, with 16 intermediate halts. *Train number 12760 runs from Hyderabad to Chennai Tambaram. It departs from Hyderabad Deccan Nampally Station (HYB) at 18.00 Hrs and arrives at Tambaram (TBM) at 07.55 Hrs next day.

Coach composition

The train consists of 22 coaches. * 1 AC First cum AC Two Tier, * 3 AC Two Tier, * 6 AC Three Tier, * 8 Sleeper class, * 2 General Unreserved, * 2 End-on Generator cars (EOG). Moreover, Charminar Express is one of the few trains of the country having CBC (Centre Buffer Coupling) rakes with GPS system. Also the first train to become a CBC. And first 24 coacher of SCR. From 5 November 2019, Charminar Express is being operated with

LHB coach Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coach is a passenger coach of Indian Railways that is developed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch of Germany (renamed Alstom LHB GmbH in 1998 after the takeover by Alstom and now known as Alstom Transport Deutschland) and mostly ...

and coaches were reduced to 22.

Relevance

This train is named after

Charminar The Charminar () is a mosque and monument located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Constructed in 1591, the landmark is a symbol of Hyderabad and officially incorporated in the emblem of Telangana The Charminar's long history includes the existe ...

, an historical monument in Hyderabad built to mark the victory against the plague epidemic that haunted Hyderabad in the 15th century. "Charminar" refers to the four minarets of the monument on the top.

Traction

It is hauled by a

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It is about 7 km from ...

-based

WAP-7 The Indian locomotive class WAP-7 is a class of 25 Volt, kV Alternating current, AC Electric locomotive, electric locomotives that was developed in 1999 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for Indian Railways. The model name stands for 5 ft 6 ...

locomotive.

Route and halts

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References

External links

Charminar Express route map
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