August Kranti Rajdhani Express
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The August Kranti Rajdhani Express which connects Mumbai
to Delhi
Hazrat Nizamuddin
, is a sister train to the main Mumbai Rajdhani. It is named after the August Kranti Maidan formerly known as the Gowalia Tank Maidan from where the Quit India Movement
was launched in August 1942.
to Hazrat Nizamuddin
and as train number 12954 in the reverse direction. It covers a distance of 1377 kilometres in each direction however it takes 17 hours 10 mins when operating as train number 12953 at an average speed of 80.21 km/h (excluding halts) while its return journey as train number 12954 takes 17 hrs 20 mins at an average speed of 79.44 km/h (excluding halts). The other trains on the route, that run faster than 12953/12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express are the 12951/12952 Mumbai Rajdhani Express and the 12909/12910 Garib Rath Express.
It leaves Mumbai Central as train number 12953 on a daily basis at 1740 hrs and at the end of 13 halts arrives at Hazrat Nizamuddin the next day at 1050 hrs. Train number 12954 leaves Hazrat Nizamuddin on a daily basis at 1655 hrs arriving at Mumbai Central the next day at 1015 hrs. Over the years several minor halts at Borivali, Vapi, Valsad, Bharuch, Nagda have been added.12953/12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express has more stops than 12909/12910 Garib Rath Express & 12907/12908 Maharashtra Sampark Kranti combined.
It departs Mumbai Central with a Valsad WCAM 2P locomotive in order to use Mumbai's DC traction wires & switches power-on-the-fly in a dead zone beyond Virar from where onwards it is a pure AC line. It gets a locomotive change at Vadodara where it swaps the WCAM 2P for a GZB WAP 7 or WAP5. This process of locomotive change takes 18 mins.
Recently, Western Railway has begun converting the Mumbai region's 1500v DC traction to 25000v AC traction. This will result in the elimination of the need to change engine's at Vadodara & WAP engines will start entering the Mumbai region.
to Hazrat Nizamuddin
12954 - Hazrat Nizamuddin
to Mumbai
Soon the process of Loco change will stop as the entire root will be electrified by 25K AC voltage till Churchgate.
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
to Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
Hazrat Nizamuddin
Nizamuddin Railway Station
Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is one of the three main railway stations of Delhi, India. Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and is being developed to ease congestion on New Delhi Railway Station. Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is served by Northern Railway....
, is a sister train to the main Mumbai Rajdhani. It is named after the August Kranti Maidan formerly known as the Gowalia Tank Maidan from where the Quit India Movement
Quit India Movement
The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table...
was launched in August 1942.
Service
The 12953/12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express is a daily service. It operates as train number 12953 from Mumbai CentralMumbai Central
Mumbai Central , previously known as Bombay Central, is a major intercity railway station and a commuter station in Mumbai. It was designed by the british architect Claude Batley. It serves as the terminal for several long distance trains operated by Western Railway. The station is located in south...
to Hazrat Nizamuddin
Nizamuddin Railway Station
Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is one of the three main railway stations of Delhi, India. Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and is being developed to ease congestion on New Delhi Railway Station. Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is served by Northern Railway....
and as train number 12954 in the reverse direction. It covers a distance of 1377 kilometres in each direction however it takes 17 hours 10 mins when operating as train number 12953 at an average speed of 80.21 km/h (excluding halts) while its return journey as train number 12954 takes 17 hrs 20 mins at an average speed of 79.44 km/h (excluding halts). The other trains on the route, that run faster than 12953/12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express are the 12951/12952 Mumbai Rajdhani Express and the 12909/12910 Garib Rath Express.
It leaves Mumbai Central as train number 12953 on a daily basis at 1740 hrs and at the end of 13 halts arrives at Hazrat Nizamuddin the next day at 1050 hrs. Train number 12954 leaves Hazrat Nizamuddin on a daily basis at 1655 hrs arriving at Mumbai Central the next day at 1015 hrs. Over the years several minor halts at Borivali, Vapi, Valsad, Bharuch, Nagda have been added.12953/12954 August Kranti Rajdhani Express has more stops than 12909/12910 Garib Rath Express & 12907/12908 Maharashtra Sampark Kranti combined.
It departs Mumbai Central with a Valsad WCAM 2P locomotive in order to use Mumbai's DC traction wires & switches power-on-the-fly in a dead zone beyond Virar from where onwards it is a pure AC line. It gets a locomotive change at Vadodara where it swaps the WCAM 2P for a GZB WAP 7 or WAP5. This process of locomotive change takes 18 mins.
Recently, Western Railway has begun converting the Mumbai region's 1500v DC traction to 25000v AC traction. This will result in the elimination of the need to change engine's at Vadodara & WAP engines will start entering the Mumbai region.
Time Table
12953 - MumbaiMumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
to Hazrat Nizamuddin
Hazrat Nizamuddin
Hazrat Nizamuddin may refer to:* Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint of India* Nizamuddin East or Nizamuddin West, neighbourhoods in Delhi, near Nizamuddin Dargah, named after the saint...
| Station Code | Station Name | Arrival | Departure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BCT | Mumbai Central Mumbai Central Mumbai Central , previously known as Bombay Central, is a major intercity railway station and a commuter station in Mumbai. It was designed by the british architect Claude Batley. It serves as the terminal for several long distance trains operated by Western Railway. The station is located in south... |
Starting Station | 17:40 | |||
| ADH | Andheri | 18:03 | 18:05 | |||
| BVI | Borivali Borivali Borivali or Borivli a suburban area located in the north-west section of Mumbai island. Borivali is approximately from Mumbai Airport and from Churchgate Railway Station... |
18:15 | 18:17 | |||
| VAPI | Vapi Vapi Vapi Vapi Vapi (IAST: vāpī, Gujarati: , is a city and a municipality in Valsad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is situated on the banks of Damanganga River in southern Gujarat, India. Vapi falls under the taluka administration of Pardi... |
19:44 | 19:46 | |||
| BL | Valsad Valsad Valsad , formerly known as Bulsar, is a city and a municipality in the Valsad district of the Indian state of Gujarat. The city has a collectorate, a district court, and a police headquarters with a historic prison... |
20:07 | 20:09 | |||
| ST | Surat Surat Surat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper... |
20:57 | 21:02 | |||
| BH | Bharuch Junction | 21:43 | 21:45 | |||
| BRC | Vadodara Vadodara Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million... Junction |
22:34 | 22:50 | |||
| RTM | Ratlam Junction Ratlam Junction Ratlam is a major junction and rail division on Indian Railways on meter and broad gauge lines. It comes under Western Railways zone of Indian Railways.There are Four major Railway Tracks passes through Ratlam City, these are along Mumbai, Delhi,... |
02:20 | 02:22 | |||
| NAD | Nagda Junction | 03:10 | 03:12 | |||
| KOTA | Kota Junction | 05:18 | 05:28 | |||
| SWM | Sawai Madhopur Junction | 06:31 | 06:33 | |||
| MTJ | Mathura Junction | 09:00 | 09:02 | |||
| NZM | Hazrat Nizamuddin Nizamuddin Railway Station Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is one of the three main railway stations of Delhi, India. Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and is being developed to ease congestion on New Delhi Railway Station. Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is served by Northern Railway.... |
11:00 | Destination Station |
12954 - Hazrat Nizamuddin
Hazrat Nizamuddin
Hazrat Nizamuddin may refer to:* Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint of India* Nizamuddin East or Nizamuddin West, neighbourhoods in Delhi, near Nizamuddin Dargah, named after the saint...
to Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
| Station Code | Station Name | Arrival | Departure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NZM | Hazrat Nizamuddin Nizamuddin Railway Station Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is one of the three main railway stations of Delhi, India. Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and is being developed to ease congestion on New Delhi Railway Station. Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is served by Northern Railway.... |
Starting Station | 16:55 | |||
| MTJ | Mathura Junction | 18:38 | 18:40 | |||
| SWM | Sawai Madhopur Junction | 20:35 | 20:37 | |||
| KOTA | Kota Junction | 21:45 | 21:55 | |||
| NAD | Nagda Junction | 00:22 | 00:24 | |||
| RTM | Ratlam Junction | 00:54 | 00:56 | |||
| BRC | Vadodara Junction | 04:20 | 04:37 | |||
| BH | Bharuch Junction | 05:23 | 05:25 | |||
| ST | Surat | 06:10 | 06:15 | |||
| BL | Valsad | 07:00 | 07:02 | |||
| VAPI | Vapi Vapi Vapi Vapi Vapi (IAST: vāpī, Gujarati: , is a city and a municipality in Valsad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is situated on the banks of Damanganga River in southern Gujarat, India. Vapi falls under the taluka administration of Pardi... |
07:24 | 07:26 | |||
| BVI | Borivali Borivali Borivali or Borivli a suburban area located in the north-west section of Mumbai island. Borivali is approximately from Mumbai Airport and from Churchgate Railway Station... |
09:30 | 09:32 | |||
| BCT | Mumbai Central Mumbai Central Mumbai Central , previously known as Bombay Central, is a major intercity railway station and a commuter station in Mumbai. It was designed by the british architect Claude Batley. It serves as the terminal for several long distance trains operated by Western Railway. The station is located in south... |
10:15 | Destination Station |
Coach composition
The August Kranti generally has a 1 AC 1st Class, 4 AC 2 tier 2 pantry cars, 2 luggage cum generator coach & up to 10 AC 3 tier coaches taking the total up to 19 coaches the maximum that can be accommodated at Mumbai Central station.Locomotion
The train is hauled using electric engines all the way from Mumbai to Nizamuddin with a loco change over at Vadodara. A WCAM 2P engine haules the train between Mumbai Central and Vadodara where it switches over to a WAP 7 engine from the GZB shed. It would earlier get a WAP 5 engine.Soon the process of Loco change will stop as the entire root will be electrified by 25K AC voltage till Churchgate.
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- 12909/12910 Bandra Garib Rath
- 12471/12472 Swaraj Express,
- 12907/12908 Maharashtra Sampark Kranti ExpressMaharashtra Sampark Kranti ExpressMaharashtra Sampark Kranti Express is a bi-weekly train which runs between Bandra Terminus in Mumbai and Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi . This train was introduced as one of the Sampark Kranti trains which were announced by the then railways minister Nitish Kumar in 2004/2005 rail budget...
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In popular culture
- Numerous fan sites tote the speed and resilience of the August Kranti Rajdhani Express as a symbol of the Indian national spirit.
- The American collegiate Hindi a cappella group Johns Hopkins Kranti of the Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
is named after the August Kranti Rajdhani Express.