''Mehr Express'' ( ur, ) is a

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self pr ...

operated daily by

Pakistan Railways Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquartered in Lahore, it owns of track across Pakistan, stretching from Torkham to Karachi, offering both freight and passenger servi ...

between

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the List ...

and

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...

. The trip takes approximately 14 hours, 30 minutes to cover a published distance of , traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line,

Sher Shah–Kot Addu Branch Line Sher Shah–Kot Addu Branch Line ( ur, ) is one of several branch lines in Pakistan, operated and maintained by Pakistan Railways. The line begins at Sher Shah Junction on the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line and ends at Kot Addu Junction on ...

and Kotri–Attock Railway Line.

Route

* Multan Cantonment– Sher Shah Junction via '' Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line'' * Sher Shah Junction– Kot Addu Junction via ''

'' * Kot Addu Junction– Basal Junction via '' Kotri–Attock Railway Line'' * Basal Junction– Golra Sharif Junction via '' Khushalgarh–Kohat–Thal Railway'' * Golra Sharif Junction– Rawalpindi via '' Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line''

Station stops

Equipment

The train offers both AC Standard and economy accommodations.

Incidents

* Three people were killed when the Rawalpindi bound Mehr Express hit a vehicle at a level crossing in Hatar Phatak near Fateh Jang 15 September 2016.

References

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