Howrah Porbandar Express


The 12905 / 12906 Howrah - Porbandar Express is a tri-weekly train of Indian Railways, running between Howrah in West Bengal and Porbandar in Gujarat. The train is named Aradhana Express by Indian Railway. It is a superfast category train. It takes 44 hours to reach Porbandar from Howrah. The train is very much important and popular train in the route and connects eastern India to extreme west part of country. The train is as important as Jnaneshwari Express.

Routeing

It passes through West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Gujarat. It is major and important train in this route, due to major industrial, commercial & economical reasons. It halts at 28 stations.
The major cities it touches are
The train passes through South Eastern Railway, South East Central Railway, Central Railway and Western Railway. With covering 2 numbers of railway zonal headquarter cities Kolkata & Bilaspur, and 10 numbers of railway divisional office cities Howrah, Kharagpur, Chakradharpur, Bilaspur, Raipur, Nagpur, Bhusawal, Baroda, Ahmedabad & Rajkot. It connects two numbers of state capital cities including Kolkata & Raipur.

Traction

On its Journey From Howrah to Porbandar, the train is hauls by a WAP 4E locomotive of Vadodara loco shed from Howrah to Ahmedabad railway station. From Ahmedabad to Porbandar, the train is hauls by WDM 3A locomotive of Vatva loco shed. Nowadays it is also hauls by a WDP 4D locomotive of Sabarmati loco shed.
There is also slip route of the train, which goes to Okha via Dwarka, Mithapur & Khambhalia.

Arrival & Departure