22197/22198 Pratham Swatantrata Sangram Express is a mail/express train service operated by

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tot ...

, connecting

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

With Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction. It was first introduced between

Barrackpore Barrackpore (also known as Barrackpur) is a city and a municipality of urban Kolkata of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is also a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA ...

and Jhansi, commemorating the first independence movement of India, which started in two places by revolutionaries

Mangal Pandey Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (infantryman) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) regiment of the British East In ...

and Rani Laxmi Bai. Later it started departing from

Kolkata Railway Station Kolkata railway station (formerly known as Chitpur station) is the newest of the five intercity railway stations serving Howrah and Kolkata, India; the others are Sealdah station in Kolkata and Howrah station, Shalimar station and in Howrah. ...

instead of

. It covers 1323 kilometers at an average speed of 55 km/h, and is usually hauled by

WAM 4 The Indian locomotive class WAM-4 is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1970 by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), alternating current (A), mixed traffic ( ...

class of locomotives. The train has

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 ...

. AC three tier, sleeper and general classes are available in it; it has no Pantry car service, but

Tatkal scheme The Tatkal Scheme is a ticketing program established by Indian Railways. The scheme is used for booking journeys at very short notice. The Indian Railways introduced it in all forms of reserved classes on almost all trains in India. It was introduce ...

is available. All the classes except general require prior reservations. It leaves

at 7:25 every Sunday, and reaches Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction at 7:20 the following morning; it departs Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Junction at 21:20 on Fridays and reaches Kolkata Railway station at 20:35 the following evening.

Important stopping points

# Naihati Jn. (

until 2021) # Barddhaman Jn. # Asansol Jn. # Jhajha #

Patna Jn. Patna ( ), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...

# Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (Mughalsarai) Jn. # Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn. #

Kanpur Central Kanpur Central (formerly known as Cawnpore North Barracks, station code: CNB) is a central and junction railway station in the city of Kanpur and is one of the five central Indian railway stations. It is third busiest in country after Howrah ...

# Virangana Lakshmibai Jhansi Jn.

Schedule

RSA - Rake Sharing

22195/22196 -

Jhansi - Bandra Terminus Express Jhansi (; Hindi: झांसी, Urdu: ) is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It lies in the region of Bundelkhand on the banks of the Pahuj River, in the extreme south of Uttar Pradesh. Jhansi is the administrative head ...

External links

Indian Rail site
Named passenger trains of India Rail transport in Bihar Rail transport in Jharkhand Rail transport in West Bengal Trains from Jhansi Transport in Kolkata Railway services introduced in 2007 Express trains in India {{India-express-train-stub