| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Service type | Superfast |
| First service | 19 October 2014 |
| Current operator(s) | Western Railways |
| Route | |
| Start | Bandra Terminus (BDTS) |
| Stops | 16 |
| End | Bhavnagar Terminus (BVC) |
| Distance travelled | 779 km (484 mi) |
| Service frequency | Weekly |
| Train number(s) | 22963 / 22964 |
| On-board services | |
| Class(es) | AC 2 tier, AC 3 tier, Sleeper Class, General Unreserved |
| Seating arrangements | Yes |
| Sleeping arrangements | Yes |
| Catering facilities | On-board Catering, E-Catering |
| Technical | |
| Rolling stock | Standard Indian Railways Coaches |
| Track gauge | 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) |
| Operating speed | 55 km/h (34 mph) |
The 22963 / 22964 Bandra Terminus - Bhavnagar Terminus Weekly Superfast Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways Western Zone that runs between Bandra Terminus and Bhavnagar Terminus in India. [1] [2]
Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways. It manages the fourth-largest railway network in the world by size, with 121,407 kilometres (75,439 mi) of total track over a 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) route. Forty nine percent of the routes are electrified with 25 KV AC electric traction while thirty three percent of them are double or multi-tracked.
The Western Railway is one of the seventeen zones of Indian Railways, and is among the busiest railway networks in India. The major railway routes of Indian Railways which come under Western Railways are: Mumbai Central - Ratlam, Mumbai Central - Ahmedabad and Palanpur - Ahmedabad. The railway system is divided into six operating divisions: Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Ratlam, and Mumbai Central. Vadodara railway station, being the junction point for the Ahmedabad - Mumbai route and the Mumbai - Ratlam route towards New Delhi, is the busiest junction Station in Western Railways and one of the busiest junctions of Indian Railways too, while Ahmedabad Division earns highest revenue followed by Mumbai Division and Vadodara Division. Surat railway station is one of the busiest railway station in Western Railway in non-junction category where more than 160 trains pass per day.
Bandra Terminus is a railway terminus in Bandra from where trains bound for Northern India and Western India are scheduled regularly. It was built in the 1990s to decongest the main Mumbai Central station. It is one of the five railway terminus within Mumbai City. The other four terminals are – Mumbai CSMT, Mumbai Central, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and Dadar. It is close to 'Bandra-Kurla Complex', a commercially important part of Mumbai as well as Mumbai Airport.
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It operates as train number 22963 from Bandra Terminus to Bhavnagar Terminus and as train number 22964 in the reverse direction serving the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Bhavnagar Terminus railway station is a railway station serving Bhavnagar town, in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat State of India. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways. Bhavnagar Terminus is well connected by rail to Kakinada Port, Kochuveli, Asansol Junction, Bandra Terminus, Surat, Delhi Sarai Rohilla, Surendranagar Junction, Botad Junction, Palitana, Mahuva Junction, Okha and Dhrangadhra Junction. Total 18 trains start from here.
Gujarat is a state in Western India and Northwest India, a coastline of 1,600 km (990 mi) – most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula – and a population in excess of 60 million. It is the sixth largest Indian state by area and the ninth largest state by population. Gujarat is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Daman and Diu to the south, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Its capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujarati-speaking people of India are indigenous to the state. The economy of Gujarat is the third-largest state economy in India with ₹14.96 lakh crore (US$210 billion) in gross domestic product and a per capita GDP of ₹157,000 (US$2,200).
Maharashtra is a state considered to be part of western, central, southern and south-central India. It is the second-most populous state and third-largest state by area in India. Spread over 307,713 km2 (118,809 sq mi), it is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana and Chhattisgarh to the east, Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the north west, and Madhya Pradesh to the north. It is also the world's second-most populous subnational entity. It was formed by merging the western and south-western parts of the Bombay State, Berar and Vidarbha, and the north-western parts of the Hyderabad State and splitting Saurashtra by the States Reorganisation Act. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population around 18 million making it the most populous urban area in India. Nagpur hosts the winter session of the state legislature. Pune is known as 'Oxford of the East' due to the presence of several well-known educational institutions.
