Thiruvananthapuram–Silchar Superfast Express


The 12507 / 08 / 15 / 16 Thiruvananthapuram Central - Silchar Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways - Northeast Frontier Railway zone that runs between and in India. It holds the record of being the most delayed train on the Indian Railways network, being delayed by an average of 10 – 12 hours and also holds the record of 28th longest train service in the World. Initially it ran between and. From 21 November 2017, it has been extended to. After this extension, it is now the longest running superfast train and the second longest running train in India.
It operates as train number 12507 / 15 from to and as train number 12508 / 16 in the reverse direction serving the 8 states of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Service

The 12508 / 16 - Express covers the distance of in 74 hrs 45 mins, in 76 hrs 35 mins as 12515 - Express and in 74 hrs 5 mins as 12507 - Express.
A Howrah based WDM 3A hauls the train from up to handing over to a Howrah based WAP 4 which powers the train up to following which Erode or Arakkonam based WAP 4 takes over until.

Routing

The 12507 / 08 / 15 / 16 - Express runs from to via, ,, ,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, and.

Train reversal

It reverses direction of travel four times during its journey at following stations

Locomotive

Coach composition

The 12507 / 08 / 15 / 16 - Express has 1 AC 2 tier, 4 AC 3 tier, 13 Sleeper Class, 2 General Unreserved, 2 SLR & a Pantry car Coaches.
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