Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Weekly Express is an Express train of the Indian Railways connecting in
Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...
and in
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
. It is currently being operated with 15621/15622 train numbers on once in week basis.
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Service
The 15621/Kamakhya–Anand Vihar Weekly Express has an average speed of 53 km/hr and covers 1878 km in 36 hrs 5 mins. 15622/Anand Vihar–Kamakhya Weekly Express has an average speed of 48 km/hr and covers 1878 km in 39 hrs 40 mins.
Route and halts
The important halts of the train are:
*Assam:
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# Goalpara Town
Goalpara, Pron: ) is the district headquarters of Goalpara district, Assam, India. It is situated to the west of Guwahati.
Etymology
The name Goalpara is said to have originated from the word "Gwaltippika" meaning Guwali village, or The villa ...
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*West Bengal:
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# Binnaguri Junction
# New Jalpaiguri (Siliguri)
*Bihar:
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*Uttar Pradesh :
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*Delhi:
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Schedule
Rake sharing
15619/15620 – Kamakhya–Gaya Weekly Express
Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Express is an Express train of the Indian Railways connecting in Bihar and in Assam. It is currently being operated with 15619/15620 train numbers on once in week basis.
Service
The 15619/Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Expres ...
Traction
Kamakhya Anand Vihar Terminal Weekly Express is hauled by a Diesel Loco Shed, Siliguri
Diesel may refer to:
* Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression
* Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines
* Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine ...
-based WDP-4B
The EMD GT46PAC or WDP4 is a passenger-hauling diesel-electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and built by both GM-EMD and under license by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) of Varanasi, ...
/ WDP-4D
The EMD GT46PAC or WDP4 is a passenger-hauling diesel-electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and built by both GM-EMD and under license by Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) of Varanasi, ...
/WDP-4
The EMD GT46PAC or WDP4 is a passenger-hauling diesel-electric locomotive with AC electric transmission designed by Electro-Motive Diesel, General Motors Electro-Motive Division and built by both GM-EMD and under license by Banaras Locomotive Wo ...
Locomotive from up to . And from to , the train is hauled by WAP-5
The Indian locomotive class WAP-5 is the name of a class of "High Speed" electric locomotives produced and used by Indian Railways. The first 10 locomotives were imported from ABB in Switzerland in 1995. They are supposed to be a variant of th ...
/ 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 of Electric Loco Shed, Ghaziabad
Electric Loco Shed, Ghaziabad is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at of the Northern Railway zone in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the two ...
and vice versa.
Rake maintenance
The train is maintained by the Guwahati Coaching Depot. The same rake is used for Kamakhya–Gaya Weekly Express
Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Express is an Express train of the Indian Railways connecting in Bihar and in Assam. It is currently being operated with 15619/15620 train numbers on once in week basis.
Service
The 15619/Gaya–Kamakhya Weekly Expres ...
for one way which is altered by the second rake on the other way.
Coach composition
The train consists of 24 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 ...
:
* 1 AC III Tier
* 6 Sleeper coaches
* 7 General
* 2 Second-class Luggage/parcel van
References
External links
15621/Kamakhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Weekly Express
India Rail Info
15622/Anand Vihar Terminal-Kamakhya Weekly Express
India Rail Info
Transport in Guwahati
Transport in Delhi
Railway services introduced in 2013
Rail transport in Assam
Rail transport in West Bengal
Rail transport in Bihar
Rail transport in Uttar Pradesh
Rail transport in Delhi
Express trains in India
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