Duronto Trains, Duronto High Speed Non-Stop Trains India

Duronto means ‘quick’ in local Bengali language of India.  These trains were introduced in the long distance category by the then Hon’ble Railway’s minister Mamta Banerjee in the Indian Rail Budget 2009 -10 as a first step towards high speed, non-stop,  trains in India. These are the non-stop point to point rail services introduced for the second time in the history of India. The Sampark Kranti trains being the first which were introduced during the railway budget by the then rail minister Mr. Nitesh Kumar during 2004-2005. The special features of these trains are that they run non-stop from origin to destination, barring technical halts. All Duronto Express trains can be easily recorgnised by the characteristic yellow-green livery of their passenger coaches. Several Duranto Express services connect the metros and major state capitals of India.

Since several years, the Government of India's Ministry of Railways has been trying to introduce high speed rail in India. In 2007, the ministry chose the 500-kilometre stretch between Delhi and Amritsar for a pre-feasibility study.  The cost for setting up the Delhi-Amritsar corridor is estimated to be around Rs 25,000 crores. On 19 January 2009, the former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said that his ministry was in the process of appointing global consultants for introducing the high-speed trains on certain routes. Besides the Delhi-Amritsar route, Pune- Mumbai- Ahmadabad,  Hyderabad- Dornakal- Vijayawada-Chennai, Chennai- Bangalore- Coimbatore- Ernakulum and Howrah- Haldia.  But, this High Speed rail service for India is expected to be completed on a long run. Meanwhile, Duranto trains are introduced as high speed non-stop trains.

The Duronto Expresses are one of the fastest trains in India. These trains run faster than Rajdhani Express trains which hold the record of the fastest long distance trains in India. This has been made possible as these trains, unlike the Rajdhani Express, will have no intermediate stoppages and run in much the same speed clocked by Rajdhani.  For example, the new bi-weekly non-stop train between New Delhi and Sealdah will take 16 hours to cover the journey, as against 17 hours taken by Rajdhani Express. The trains will, however, have technical stoppages   at a few stations for facilitating staff and loco change but the transit time will come down drastically. The trains will adhere to the speed limit of 110 km/h (non-stop). The Chennai and Pune Duronto are projected to run at a speed of 130 km/h.

The facilities offered in Duronto Express trains are one of the best by Indian Railways. The trains mainly comprises of five different classes of accommodations namely- First AC, Two-tier AC, Three Tier AC, Economy Three Tier AC (similar to Garib Rath Express) and Sleeper Class (Available in Mumbai- Nagpur Duronto, Secunderabad New Delhi Duranto and Howrah- Yeshwantapur  Duronto).

The Rakes comprise ICF coaches used in the Rajdhanis and Garib Raths earlier. Each Duronto coach is 24 meters long, compared to the regular coach length of 22.3 meters. Good quality stainless steel has been used to make the coaches. The coaches are well equipped with control discharge toilet system, superior sound and thermal insulation and center buffer coupler to run longer trains. The coaches have well-fitted with air springs instead of coil springs, thus offers great riding experience even at higher speeds. Besides unique safety and hygiene features like dustbins and fire extinguishers, the coaches have sleeker designs for bottle holders and switches, mobile charging points, sliding transparent doors between coaches, and LED night lamps instead of regular fluorescent light.

The passenger service of Duronto Express includes a great pantry car that provides meals whose cost is included in the train ticket itself. Moreover, the fares are also less when compared to other express trains running on the similar routes. And on some long haul Duronto Express trains, there’s also Doctors on board.

The timings of all the trains have been set keeping in mind the Service Class people who can opt for these trains to take Weekend leaves reaching in time for their offices on Mondays.

 

 Duronto Trains list and Timings

    

Train Number	Train Name	Train Source Stn	Source Dep. Time	Train Destination Stn	Dest. Arr. Time
12213	DURONTO EXPRESS	YESVANTPUR JN	23:40	DELHI S ROHILLA	06:50
12214	YPR DURONTO EXP	DELHI S ROHILLA	23:00	YESVANTPUR JN	07:30
12219	SC DURONTO EXP	LOKMANYATILAK T	23:05	SECUNDERABAD JN	11:05
12220	DURONTO AC EXP	SECUNDERABAD JN	23:05	LOKMANYATILAK T	11:05
12221	HOWRAH DURONTO	PUNE JN	15:15	HOWRAH JN	19:40
12222	HWH PUNE DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	08:20	PUNE JN	11:35
12223	LTT ERS DURONTO	LOKMANYATILAK T	20:50	ERNAKULAM JN	20:15
12224	ERS LTT DURONTO	ERNAKULAM JN	23:30	LOKMANYATILAK T	00:20
12227	INDORE DURONTO	MUMBAI CENTRAL	23:15	INDORE JN BG	11:10
12228	MUMBAI DURONTO	INDORE JN BG	23:00	MUMBAI CENTRAL	11:40
12239	JAIPUR DURONTO	MUMBAI CENTRAL	23:15	JAIPUR	14:05
12240	JP BCT DURONTO	JAIPUR	19:15	MUMBAI CENTRAL	11:40
12241	CDG ASR DURONTO	CHANDIGARH	18:50	AMRITSAR JN	23:15
12242	ASR CDG DURONTO	AMRITSAR JN	05:20	CHANDIGARH	09:45
12243	DURONTO EXP	CHENNAI CENTRAL	07:15	COIMBATORE JN	13:55
12244	DURONTO EXP	COIMBATORE JN	15:20	CHENNAI CENTRAL	22:05
12245	HWH YPR DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	11:00	YESVANTPUR JN	16:00
12246	DURONTO EXPRESS	YESVANTPUR JN	11:15	HOWRAH JN	16:00
12259	NDLS DURONTO	SEALDAH	18:40	NEW DELHI	11:00
12260	SDAH DURONTO EXP	NEW DELHI	20:05	SEALDAH	12:30
12261	HOWRAH DURONTO	MUMBAI CST	17:15	HOWRAH JN	19:40
12262	HWH CSTM DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	08:20	MUMBAI CST	10:30
12263	NZM DURONTO EXP	PUNE JN	11:10	H NIZAMUDDIN	07:15
12264	PUNE DURONTO EXP	H NIZAMUDDIN	11:00	PUNE JN	07:00
12265	DEE JAT DURONTO	DELHI S ROHILLA	22:15	JAMMU TAWI	07:15
12266	DURONTO EXPRESS	JAMMU TAWI	19:20	DELHI S ROHILLA	04:20
12267	ADI DURANTO EXP	MUMBAI CENTRAL	23:25	AHMEDABAD JN	05:50
12268	BCT DURANTO EXP	AHMEDABAD JN	23:45	MUMBAI CENTRAL	06:15
12269	DURONTO EXPRESS	CHENNAI CENTRAL	06:40	H NIZAMUDDIN	10:35
12270	MAS DURONTO EXP	H NIZAMUDDIN	15:50	CHENNAI CENTRAL	20:10
12271	NDLS DURONTO EXP	LUCKNOW NR	23:30	NEW DELHI	07:30
12272	LKO DURONTO EXP	NEW DELHI	23:30	LUCKNOW NR	07:10
12273	NDLS DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	13:00	NEW DELHI	06:05
12274	HWH DURONTO EXP	NEW DELHI	13:00	HOWRAH JN	06:10
12275	NDLS DURONTO EXP	ALLAHABAD JN	22:40	NEW DELHI	06:05
12276	ALD DURONTO EXP	NEW DELHI	22:40	ALLAHABAD JN	06:10
12277	HWH PURI DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	14:25	PURI	21:45
12278	PURI HWH DURONTO	PURI	06:15	HOWRAH JN	13:45
12281	BBS DURONTO EXP	BHUBANESWAR	08:10	NEW DELHI	06:05
12282	BBS DURONTO EXP	NEW DELHI	13:00	BHUBANESWAR	11:05
12283	ERS NZM DURONTO	ERNAKULAM JN	23:30	H NIZAMUDDIN	20:40
12284	NZM ERS DURONTO	H NIZAMUDDIN	21:35	ERNAKULAM JN	18:30
12285	NZM DURONTO EX	SECUNDERABAD JN	13:30	H NIZAMUDDIN	10:35
12286	NZM SC DURONTO	H NIZAMUDDIN	15:50	SECUNDERABAD JN	14:00
12289	NAGPUR DURONTO	MUMBAI CST	20:15	NAGPUR	07:15
12290	NGP CSTM DURONTO	NAGPUR	20:50	MUMBAI CST	07:50
12293	ALD DURONTO EXP	LOKMANYATILAK T	17:25	ALLAHABAD JN	12:25
12294	ALD LTT DURONTO	ALLAHABAD JN	19:30	LOKMANYATILAK T	14:50
12297	PUNE DURONTO	AHMEDABAD JN	22:30	PUNE JN	07:00
12298	ADI DURONTO EXP	PUNE JN	21:45	AHMEDABAD JN	06:15
12847	HWH DGHA DURONTO	HOWRAH JN	11:15	DIGHA FLAG STN	14:15
12848	DGHA HWH DURONTO	DIGHA FLAG STN	15:35	HOWRAH JN	18:35
22201	DURONTO EXPRESS	SEALDAH	20:00	PURI	04:00
22202	DURONTO EXPRESS	PURI	19:45	SEALDAH	04:00
22203	SC DURONTO EXP	VISHAKAPATNAM	22:30	SECUNDERABAD JN	08:00
22204	VSKP DURONTO EX	SECUNDERABAD JN	20:30	VISHAKAPATNAM	06:05
22209	NDLS DURONTO EXP	MUMBAI CENTRAL	23:15	NEW DELHI	16:55
22210	BCT DURONTO	NEW DELHI	23:30	MUMBAI CENTRAL	16:15
22211	AII NZM DURONTO	AJMER JN	05:50	H NIZAMUDDIN	12:35
22212	NZM AII DURONTO	H NIZAMUDDIN	15:10	AJMER JN	21:50
22213	DURONTO EXPRESS	SHALIMAR	22:05	PATNA JN	06:40
22214	DURONTO EXPRESS	PATNA JN	20:40	SHALIMAR	05:40
52451	SHIVALK DLX EXP	KALKA	05:30	SIMLA	10:15 Bottom of Fo
52452	SHIVALK DLX EXP	SIMLA	17:40	KALKA	22:25

 

 

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