Alleppey Express is one of the oldest trains in the Southern Railway

Southern Railway (India)

The Southern Railway is the earliest of the 16 zones of the Indian Railways created in independent India. It was created on April 14, 1951 by merging three state railways namely Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway, and the Mysore State Railway. The South Indian Railway...

 zone of the Indian Railways

Indian Railways

Indian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....

 that runs from Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

 to Alappuzha

Alappuzha

Alappuzha , also known as Alleppey, is a town in Alappuzha District of Kerala state of southern India. As per 2001 census Alleppey is the sixth largest city in Kerala with an urban population of 177,029. Alleppey is situated to the south of Kochi and north of Trivandrum...

. The train was introduced in 1944 known as Cochin Express (and Kerala Express prior to that) connecting Kochi

Kochi

-Places:* Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala, India, formerly known as Cochin* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India** Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi, Kerala, India...

 with Chennai but later changed to its present name after its extension to Alappuzha in Kerala.

The train's assigned number is 16041.
The corresponding Chennai Express runs from Alleppey to Chennai (train number 16042).

Coaches

• 2 2-tier AC coaches
• 2 3-tier AC coaches
• passanger list
• 12 second class sleeper coaches
• 4 General Compartments

See also

• Trivandrum Mail
  Trivandrum Mail
  The Thiruvananthapuram mail is a super fast train running between Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai. It is one of the most prestigious trains of the Southern Railway zone of the Indian railways. It connected Chennai with Kochi in early 1960s numbered with...
  
  
• Guruvayur Express
  Guruvayur Express
  The Guruvayur Express is one of the express trains of Southern Railway in India. The train runs between the temple city Guruvayur with the capital of Tamilnadu Chennai through round about route. Earlier it used to connect state capital of Kerala, Trivandrum, with Guruvayoor and was later extended...
  
  
• West Coast Express
  West coast express (India)
  West Coast Express is a daily train connecting the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu with the port city of Mangalore in Karnataka via Coimbatore Junction. It is one of the trains connecting the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea and the oldest train....