Agartala Delhi Rajdhani Express will be flagged off today by Minister Of State Railways Rajen Gohain
The
eagerly awaited Agartala-Delhi Rajdhani Express will
finally be flagged off from Agartala railway station by the Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain today, Railway officials said. The Agartala Rajdhani Express will cover a distance of 2,430 kilometres. The average speed that the Rajdhani Express from Agartala to Delhi will run on will be around 59 km/hour.
"Agartala-Anand Vihar Rajdhani Express train would be flagged off from Agartala railway station on October 28 by Union Minister of State for Railways, Rajen Gohain. Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy would be the Chief Guest of the programme," according to Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Pranab Jyoti Sharma.
The new Rajdhani Express will be formally flagged off tomorrow, but the train would start running only from November 6. From Anand Vihar in New Delhi, the Agartala Delhi Rajdhani Train will run once a week on Wednesdays and from Agartala the Rajdhani Express will run once a week on Mondays.
The train will stop at 16 stations including Mughal Sarai, Guwahati, Kanpur Central, New Jalpaiguri Junction and Badarpur junction. The total time of the journey that the Agartala Delhi Rajdhani Train will take is 40 hours and 50 minutes.
The Agartala Delhi Rajdhani Express will include one AC first class, two AC two tiers, eight AC three tiers, one pantry car and two power cum luggage vans. The Rajdhani Express will have 14 coaches in total.
After Guwahati and Dibrugarh in Assam, Agartala would be the third city in the North East to get a Rajdhani. Tripura came to country's broad gauge railway map in 2008.
At the Agartala Rajdhani Express Inauguration, Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey, State PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury and Jitendra Chowdhury and Sankar Datta, two Lok Sabha MPs from Tripura, will be present.