The 17687/17688 Marathwada Express is an Express that connects

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and

Dharmabad Dharmabad is a town and a municipal council in Nanded district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is located near the state border with Telangana. Dharmabad has an average elevation of . It is connected by railway. An industrial training i ...

. It is also known as the ''High Court Express''. During its journey, it connects many important places in

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such as

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, Jalna,

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and Nanded.

Schedule

17688 UP Marathwada Express departs at 04:00 IST and reaches at 13:10 IST. 17687 DOWN Marathwada Express departs Manmad Junction at 15:00 IST and reaches Dharmabad at 23:50 IST. The train covers a distance of 419 km between Manmad Junction and Dharmabad.

Etymology

The train connects almost all the major cities of

, hence its name Marathwada Express. People from Nanded and

districts use the train to attend sessions of the

Mumbai High Court The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the o ...

bench situated at Aurangabad, hence the train got its nickname as ''High Court Express''. It is also known as "Manmad–Dharmabad Composite Express", since it runs as an express train between

and

and as a passenger train between Aurangabad and

Route & Halts

The train runs from via , , , , , , , to .

Traction

As the entire route is undergoing electrification both train are hauled by a Pune /

Guntakal Guntakal is a City in Anantapur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Guntakal mandal and Guntakal revenue division.It is also the headquarters of the Guntakal Railway Division in South Central Railway. Ge ...

-based

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 ...

locomotive from Manmad to Dharmabad, and vice versa.

Rake sharing

The train shares its rake with 17617/17618

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References

External links

* http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-name.html * http://indian-railway.swargate.com/Train-Time-Table/Manmad-Dharmabad-Composite-Express/17687/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Marathwada Express Transport in Manmad Named passenger trains of India Transport in Aurangabad, Maharashtra Rail transport in Maharashtra Express trains in India