Swarna Jayanti express trains are weekly Superfast trains introduced in 1997 for the 50th "Golden Jubilee" year of

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

's independence. All trains go to

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 wi ...

, via multiple routes such as: *

Mysore Swarna Jayanti Express The 12781 / 12782 Swarna Jayanti Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways South Western Railway zone that runs between and in India. This train is also comes under the Swarna Jayanti Express trains series. It shares its ra ...

Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express The 12817 / 18 / 73 / 74 Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways – South Eastern Railway zone that runs between and in India. It operates as train number 12817 / 73 from Hatia to Anand Vi ...

* Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express (via Barkakana) *

Trivandrum Swarna Jayanti Express The 12643 / 44 Swarna Jayanti Superfast Express is a Express train belonging to Indian Railways Southern Railway zone that runs between and in India. It operates as train number 12643 from to and as train number 12644 in the reverse dir ...

(via

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Ernakulam Ernakulam () is the Central Business District of the city of Kochi in Kerala, India and has lent its name to the Ernakulam district. Many major establishments, including the Kerala High Court, the office of the Kochi Municipal Corporation ...

) * Visakhapatnam Swarna Jayanti Express *

Sambalpur Sambalpur () is the fifth largest city in the Indian State of Odisha. It is located on the banks of river Mahanadi, with a population of 335,761 (as per 2011 census). Prehistoric settlements have been recorded there. It is the home of the Samb ...

as Hirakud Swarna Jayanti Express, later shortened to

Hirakud Express The 20807/20808 Hirakud SF Express is a tri-weekly express train which runs between Amritsar and Visakhapatnam. It passes through the cities of Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Jhansi, Bilaspur, Sambalpur, Bhubaneswar and Brahmapur. It was initially i ...

, is also introduced as part of the Swarna Jayanti Express series. Under the political pressure the train extended farther to

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and later to

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and

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Maj ...

. * Ahmedabad

Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express The 12957 / 12958 Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani Express is a Rajdhani Express train on the Indian Railways broad-gauge track network, connecting Ahmedabad and New Delhi, a distance of approximately 933.5 km. The train was one of the last Rajdh ...

is also part of the Swarna Jayanti Express series. This is the only

Swarna Jayanti Swarna Jayanti express trains are weekly Superfast trains introduced in 1997 for the 50th "Golden Jubilee" year of India's independence. All trains go to Delhi, via multiple routes such as: * Mysore Swarna Jayanti Express * Jharkhand Swarn ...

with fully air conditioned coaches along with Rajdhani status. *

Millennium Express The 12645 / 46 Ernakulam Hazrat Nizamuddin Millennium Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways - Southern Railway zone that runs between Ernakulam Junction and Hazrat Nizamuddin in India. It operates as train numb ...

is part of this series.

Livery

Back in the days of maroon-colored coaches and vacuum-braked stock, Mysore and Visakhapatnam Swarna Jayanti Expresses ran with a red, white, and blue livery, until all coaches were made back into the air-braked blue coaches. {{Indian Railways * Railway services introduced in 1997 Named passenger trains of India