Status Active End Chennai Egmore Average journey time 06:30 hours Current operator Southern Railway zone Service type Express train Track owner Southern Railway zone | Locale Tamil Nadu Distance travelled 336 km (209 mi) Service frequency Daily each way First service 1972 Stops 14 | |
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Start Tiruchirappalli Junction railway station | ||
Rockfort express with lhb coaches attacks chrompet
The Rockfort Express is a overnight Express rail connecting Trichy with Chennai Egmore via Villupuram in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Contents
- Rockfort express with lhb coaches attacks chrompet
- Indian railways early morning chase and chennai entry rockfort express
- Background and Relevance
- Rakes
- Schedule
- Maintenance
- References
Indian railways early morning chase and chennai entry rockfort express
Background and Relevance
The eponymous train is named after the famous 12th-century fortress Rockfort temple in the heart of Tiruchirapalli. The train originally ran between Madras Egmore and Tiruchirappalli Junction on the 'Chord Line'. Later, when the 'Main Line' was closed for operations to facilitate gauge conversion projects, a part of this train was extended to Thanjavur Junction as Rockfort Link Express (6177A/ 6178A). It was further extended to Kumbakonam during the Mahamaham festival. The extended run was truncated effective September 2013. The entire formation now runs up to Tiruchirappalli Junction.
This train originally had a signal-green livery, with a yellow stripe along the upper and lower part of windows. It later was changed to the standard VB Maroon-livery when it was run on the MG. The BG version of the train has the standard AB Blue livery.
Rakes
Rockfort Express is one of the very few trains in the Indian Railways to have coaches of six classes. There were 22 coaches including an AC First Class, AC 2-Tier, First class, AC 3-tier, Sleeper Class and General Sitting compartments. First Class coaches were removed in 2014.New LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) coaches has been allotted for this train. The train runs with LHB coaches from 26 September 2016. The train usually runs to full capacity.
The Coaches have RSA with Pandian Express and latter is run by two independent LHB coaches.
Schedule
The train numbered 16178 departs from Trichy Junction at 22:40 Hours and arrives Viluppuram Junction by 01:45 Hours and reaches Chennai Egmore at 05:00 Hours the next day. The pairing train numbered 16177 starts at 22:30 Hours from Chennai Egmore and arrives Viluppuram Junction by 01:05 and reaches Trichy Junction at 05:00 hours the next day.
Maintenance
The coaches are maintained at SSE/C&W/MDU.
