Service type Superfast Current operator(s) Southern Railway zone Stops 10 | Status Operating Start Chennai Central (MAS) | |
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First service 1 October 1964; 52 years ago (1964-10-01) | ||
The 12639/12640 Brindavan Express is a train linking Chennai Central and Bangalore City Railway Station. It leaves Chennai Central at 07:50 and reaches Bangalore City at 14:00 hours. In the reverse direction, it leaves Bangalore City at 15:00 and reaches Chennai Central at 21:05 hours. The train has around 24 coaches with no AC chair cars.
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History
This train introduced in the 1964 as the first intercity express in the southern Railways. At that time it had stops only at Katpadi and Jolarpet covering the 360 kilometres (220 mi) in 5 hours. Later due to derailments of some trains the speed was reduced to take 5.5 hours in the 1980s. With increase in stops it has now come to 6 hours. In the early 1980s the train was operated as double decker with ac and non-ac classes, which was latter on scrapped, and the train was operated as single deck. In the late 1980s the MAS-JTJ stretch was electrified. JTJ-SBC the train used diesel engines. For the purpose of speed this train used to have twin diesels for the up gradient (deccan) between JTJ and SBC. The Train celebrated its Golden Jubilee run on October 1, 2014.
Stoppings
The train crosses four major junctions - Arakkonam, Katpadi Junction (Vellore), Jolarpettai and Bangarpet. However, it also stops at Perambur, Walajah Road, Ambur, Vaniyambadi, Kuppam, Krishnarajapuram railway station and Bangalore Cantonment.
Speed
This train covers the distance between Chennai and Bangalore in 6 hrs 5 min. i.e. 362 kilometres (225 mi) in 365 minutes at an average of 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph). The maximum speed of this train is 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph).The fastest stretch is between Chennai and Katpadi when it covers 130 kilometres (81 mi) in 120 minutes at 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph). The slowest stretch is between Jolarpet and Kuppam as it has to climb up the gradient of the Deccan plateau.
Rakes
This train usually gets a WAP 7 locomotive or sometimes WAP 4 of Lallaguda or Royapuram shed.