The 22497 / 22498 Sri Ganganagar – Tiruchirappalli Humsafar Express is a superfast express train of the Indian Railways connecting

Sri Ganganagar Sri Ganganagar is the northernmost city of the Indian state of Rajasthan, near the international border of India and Pakistan. It is the administrative headquarters of Sri Ganganagar district. It is named after Maharaja Shri Ganga Singh Bahad ...

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, providing connectivity to Rajasthan from Central Tamil Nadu. It is the 4th Humsafar Express train which is introduced in the

Humsafar Express Humsafar Express is a fully premium service with AC-3 Tier and Sleeper class accommodation having all the modern facilities designed and operated by Indian Railways. "Humsafar" is an Urdu word meaning "co-passenger" The first service was inaugu ...

Series. It is currently being operated with the train numbers 22497/22498 on a weekly basis. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, it ran as a special service which is numbered as 02497/02498.

Service

It averages 53 km/h as 22497/Sri Ganganagar - Tiruchchirappalli Humsafar Express starts on Tuesday and covering 3116 km in 58h 25m and 54 km/h as 22498/Tiruchchirapalli - Sriganganagar HumSafar Express starts on Thursday covering 3114 km in 57h 55m. The rakes have primary maintenance at Sri Ganganagar and the rakes also have secondary maintenance at Tiruchirappalli.

Timings

22497 - leaves Shri Ganganagar Jn every Tuesday at 2:00 PM and reach Tiruchchirappalli Junction on Thursday at 11:20 AM IST 22498 - Leaves Tiruchchirappalli Junction Every Friday and reach Shri Ganganagar Jn on Sunday at afternoon 13:40 PM IST

Coach composition

The train is completely a 3-tier AC sleeper train designed by

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with features of LED screen display to show information about stations, train speed etc. and will have announcement system as well, Vending machines for tea, coffee and milk, Bio toilets in compartments as well as CCTV cameras. The train has standard LHB rakes with max speed of 130 kmph. The train consists of 19 coaches : * 16 AC III Tier * 1 Pantry Car * 2 End-on Generator

Route and halts

Traction

As the entire route is fully electrified, it is hauled by a Vadodara Loco Shed based

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electric locomotive from Shri Ganganagar to

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and from

Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirappalli (), also known as Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with being the best livable and the cleanest city of Ta ...

It is hauled by WDP4D of Pune Diesel Loco Shed and vice-versa .

Direction reversal

Train Reverses its direction 1 times: *

Future plans, proposals & Demands

In order to generate more revenue and to serve more people, this train service is planned to extend till Madurai Junction from Tiruchirappalli via

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. There are prolonged demands to extend this train till

kanyakumari Kanyakumari (Tamil; / kəɳjɑkʊmɑɾiː/; referring to Devi Kanya Kumari, officially known as Kanniyakumari, formerly known as Cape Comorin) is a town and a municipality in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the ...

as there is no direct train connection from

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to religious destination Kanyakumari. Similarly there are also prolonged demands to operate more train services from southern region of

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such as Madurai,

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to places like Ahamedabad,

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and

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as the existing train services are not enough to cater the needs of the people in these routes. So there is a strong demands from various regions of people to extend this train till kanyakumari or to

Rameswaram Rameswaram (; also transliterated as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about from ...

as this train runs vacant mostly.

Notes

References

External links

14715/Sri Ganganagar - Tiruchchirappalli HumSafar Express14716/Tiruchchirapalli - Sriganganagar HumSafar Express
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