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#Kumbh Express
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#Name: Kumbha is a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which they...
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gather to bathe in sacred rivers. Kumbha is organised at 4 places ie Haridwar, Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain, by rotation. Kumbh helds every 12th year, while Ardh Kumbh at every 6th year only at Haridwar and Allahabad. Kumbha means pitcher, it is believed that drops of nectar fell from pitcher when carried by God, at these places. Haridwar is one of the holiest cities among 5, for Hindus and having importance for devotees of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Since train goes to Haridwar it was named as Kumbha Exp.
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#Age: 3years 8months
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#Regions: #WB - Presidency, Burdwan #JH - Santhal Pargana #BR - Munger, Patna #UP - Purvanchal, Awadh, Rohilkhand, Upper Doab. #UK - Garhwal.
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#Zone and #division: ER Howrah Asansol ECR Danapur Mughalsarai. NR Lucknow NR, Varanasi, Moradabad divisions.
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#Inaugral: 30 Dec 2009
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#Base: Howrah
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#Rivers: Son Ganga(2) Ramganga
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#Physical Regions: Burdwan plains, Rajmahal hills, plains of South bihar, purvanchal, awadh, rohilkhand.
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#Soils: Red Alluvial.
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#Zones: Serves 3 Zones ER 4, ECR 6, NR 6
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#State : 5 States - #WB 2, #JH 2, #BR 5, #UP 6, #UK 1
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#Speed: Max avg 86 kmph Hwh Asn. Min avg 21 kmph MGS BSB
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#Languages: Travels thru Bengali Hindi Urdu speaking region.

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#Poorva_Express
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All time full, people's choice, high priority ER train.
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#Name: Poorva is from word Poorv meaning East and Poorva means "one who goes or belongs to East". The directions are defined in our country with reference to Standard Time Meridian passing thru Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, not according as seems on map. Since West Bengal is the Eastern most state and Kolkata is largest city of Eastern India. Since train travels in Eastern direction from National Capital to Eastern metropolitan, it was named as Poorva Express.
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#Regions_of_state: It travels thru regions of state as #UP: Middle Doab, Awadh, Purvanchal. #BR: Magadh. #JH: North Chota Nagpur. #WB: Burdwan, Presidency regions.
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#Zone_n_division: It travels thru zone division as #NR: Delhi. #NCR: Allahabad, #NR: Varanasi. #ECR: Mughalsarai, Dhanbad. #ER: Asansol, Howrah divisions.
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#Rivers: It crosses 6 major river
enroute ie Yamuna, Ganga(2), Son, Phalgu, Damodar, Rupnarayan.
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#Physical_Regions: Passes thru plains Ganga yamuna doab, Purvanchal, Mirzapur hills, Koderma and Hazaribag plateau, Lower damodar and Rupanarayan plains.
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#Soils: It crosses thru region having Alluvial and Red Soil.
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#State_n_Zone: It serves 4 zone and 5 states
having halt as NR 3, NCR 5, ECR 8, ER 4 & DL 1, UP 8, BR 4, JH 3, WB 4.
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#Speed: MAX: TDL ETW 95kmph. MIN: Bsb Mgs 18 kmph.
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#Languages: It travels in Hindi, Urdu and Bengali speaking region.