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#Name:Malgudi Express
#Info:It is a day train running between Karnataka's two major cities,Bangalore (Yesvantapur) and Mysore.
#Etymology: It is named after the legendary fictional town created by RK Narayanji. RKji lived in Mysore for a long time. It is only apt that a train introduced between the city he called home and the city which inspired Malgudi. Malgudi,...
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it is believed to be the combination of MALleswaram and basavanGUDI. Narayanji also took inspiration for the Malgudi station from the Malleswaram Railway station. The station is highlighted in two books,The Taalkative Man and The Guide.
#Regions: It connects the Old Mysore region with the New Bangalore area.
#Languages; Kannada
#Rivers: Kaveri, Shimsha, Arkavathy, Vrushabhavati
#Coaches: Unreserved
#RSA: Kaveri Express
#Loco:UBL WDP/G 4
#Trivia: It is an SR rake and only CBC Coupled ordinary train between SBC-MYS
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12658 Bangalore-Chennai Mail
Bangalore-chennai Mail is one of the highly demanded and fastest train on the 360 km strech between Bangalore and Chennai running at an average speed of 60kmph. This train introduced in the British era between the 2 South Indian cities of Chennai and Bangalore i.e from their Coastal City to their Military City.
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train came under the Southern Zone and was run as the 07/08 Mail which later became 6007/08 Chennai-Bangalore-chennai Mail with maintainence at Chennai Central. To prevent the train from idiling at Bangalore City, the train was made to return as 6023/24 Express from Bangalore which ran in the day time between the cities. The Express from chennai used to leave in the afternoon to return as mail from Bangalore
The top speed train of Brindavan introduced to take 5.5 hours between the cities later on reduced to 6 hour runs. the Jolarpettai-Bangalore section was un-electrified and Brindavan being a SF used to get Twin diesels for its Deccan plateau ascent. Mail however, the convinient train with the slow possible timings of 7 hours for 360 kmph used to get a single diesel loco in the 1990's. the timings followed then were SBC: 22:15hrs MAS: 05:15 Return MAS 22:10hrs SBC 05:10 hrs. The same continued till 2003
In 2003 the base shifted and for a very short period the train ran with 65xx numbering and Express at this time had changed its RSA with the 12608 Superfast. the timing of mail was revised to 22:40 departure at Bangalore city and 22:45 departure at Chennai in this period.
In December of the same year(Also the year when TAAG was released twice regular in July and revised again in December) the train was made a SF with the timings quite similar to present timings. ever since its become a SF cateogory, Mail has lost its reputation of keeping to its time and has got a new reputation of early arrivals especially towards Chennai with regular arrivals of 20 minutes ahead of schedule into Chennai Centralwith minor delays. Sharing its rakes with 12627/28 SWR's pride Karnataka Express, mail faces issues during fogs or heavy monsoons which delay Karnataka but same lasts for very short period

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India's First Double Decker Train Between Dhanbad-Howrah.
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#History:- The Howrah – Dhanbad Double Decker Express is an important superfast train of Indian
Railways , which was the first...
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of its type to be introduced. It has been accommodated with
latest stainless steel LHB Coaches , manufactured at Kapurthala Coach Factory. It connects
Kolkata , capital of West Bengal and Dhanbad , an important town in Jharkhand . With this India
joins the league of Europe and North America that run double-decker trains . This new AC
design has several features namely stainless steel body, high-speed Eurofima design bogies
with air springs and fire safety-features. The coaches have a control discharge toilet system.
The train comprises five AC Double Deck Chair Cars and two End-On-Generation Vans. This
train is regularly hauled by a WAP 7 locomotive. Sometimes, a WAP-4 locomotive can also be
seen as an offlink.
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#Traininformation:-
#Inaugralrundate:-01.10.2011.
#Flaggedoffby:-Mr.Dinesh Trivedi.
#Zone:-ER.
#Raketype:-LHB.
#Noofstoppages:-5
#Locolinks:-WAP-7 Of Howrah or WAP-4 Of Howrah.
#Trainstatus:-Functioning.
#Trainno:-12385/12386.
#Seatingarrangements:-Available.
#Cateringfacility:-Available.
#Baggagefacility:-Available.
#Rakesmadeby:-RCF Kapurthala.
#Classofaccommodation:-AC Chair Car.