Source : Indian Railways, Volume 43 -
click here This train was inaugurated by Shri Ram Vilas Paswan along with the inauguration of the Guntur division of SCR. On August 20, 2000, this service was split into 2 separate services sharing schedules, with one running till Vasco da gama, which later became the present day 18047/48. In 2014, it was again made a daily train by running in a new time slot.