Darjeeling Mail is a daily train running between Sealdah

Sealdah

Sealdah is one of the major train stations serving Kolkata in India, the others being Howrah Station, Shalimar Station and Kolkata Railway Station. Sealdah is one of the busiest rail stations in India and an important suburban rail terminal...

 in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 and New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri is a major railway station of the city of Siliguri in the Indian state of West Bengal. The station is popularly known by its acronym NJP...

 in West Bengal. This is an overnight train running within West Bengal. Numbered 2343/2344 this train belongs to superfast

Superfast Mail/Express

Superfast Mail/Express trains are faster Express rail service of India with Superfast charge levied over Mail/Express charges. Superfast trains make small number of stops, unlike Mail/Express and hence cover the same distance in marginally lower time span, as compared to their counterparts...

 category of Indian Railways covering 567 km in 10 hours averaging at 57 km/h.

Relevance

New Jalpaiguri is the place where the toy train to Darjeeling starts. 2343/44 connects to the Darjeeling passenger leaving New Jalpaigri at 9AM. Hence this name has been given to this train.

Route

This train runs via Burdwan, Malda Town and Kishangunj to reach New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri

New Jalpaiguri is a major railway station of the city of Siliguri in the Indian state of West Bengal. The station is popularly known by its acronym NJP...

. This is a famous train on this route.

A slip route of this train has been started up to Haldibari (HDB). It reaches there at 1525 and on the return journey it departs HDB at 1645.

Timings

This train leaves Sealdah at 22:05, to reach New Jalpaiguri at 8AM the next day. Return it leaves New Jalpaiguri at 20:00hrs to reach Sealdah at 6AM the next day. A WDP4 locomotive from Siliguri shed takes the train from end-to-end nowadays.