Service type Express Start Hyderabad Deccan | Current operator(s) South Eastern Railway End Howrah Junction | |
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Locale Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal First service 16 May 1975; 41 years ago (1975-05-16) | ||
The East Coast Express is a daily train running between Hyderabad and Howrah (near Kolkata). This train numbered 18645/46 takes 30 hours to cover the distance of 1592 km due to lot of stops on the way.
Train composition and loco
This train has 11 sleeper coaches, four 3AC, one 2AC, 2 general and 2 SLR coaches making a total of 20 coaches. The train is hauled by a Lallaguda WAP7 locomotive from Secundrabad to Vijayawada. It reverses there and gets another WAP4 Lallaguda loco and hauls it up to Visakhapatnam. It again reverses there a gets a WAP4/WAM4 Visakhapatnam loco to haul the train up to Howrah.
References
East Coast Express (India) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA