The Visakhapatnam – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express is a daily

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train service of the

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. It was launched on 24 March 2010.

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, Union Minister of State for Human Resources, flagged off the train at Visakhapatnam railway station in the presence of the local MLAs, MPs of Vizag district and

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officials. This train is presently operated by the South Coast Railway of Indian Railways. The train runs between

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and

Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (also known by its former name Kurla Terminus, station code: LTT) is a railhead and a major railway terminus in the Kurla suburb of Mumbai, India. LTT is managed by the Central Railway. The and suburban railway statio ...

covering in 29 hours and 15 minutes and from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Visakhapatnam in 28 hours and 20 minutes. The train was earlier numbered as 12749 and 12750. The train frequency was changed from Bi-weekly to Daily as presented in the

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2013–14. But From 10 September 2013 onwards reducing the status of 12749/12750 Visakhapatnam-Mumbai LTT from SF to ‘ordinary express’ renumbered as 18519/18520. The train no. 22847/22848 passing through same starting point VSKP and ending point LTT via Nagpur is weekly SF passing through Nagpur Junction, Manmad Junction and

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Train details

Stoppages

Train number 18519 stops at Samalkot Jn,

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, Akividu,

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, Lingampalli, Vikarabad,

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and

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en route to

. Train no 18520 stops at the same stations, but the other way around.

Coach composition

The train consists of One First Class Ac + One Two Tier AC coach+ Three Three tier AC coach, ten Sleeper Class coaches, Six Unreserved General coaches and two Unreserved Luggage cum Sleeper Coaches.

Loco links

The train is regularly hauled by

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locomotive from LTT to

with

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again at Vijayawada WDP4D with a loco reversal at Vijayawada.

Sources

flagged off article on THE HINDU

India-Rail-Info article on Visakhapatnam-MumbaiLTT SF Expressarticle on THE HINDU reducing the status from sf to exp18519 Time Table from indiarailinfo
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