Barak Valley Express

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Barak Valley Express
ScrappedSeptember 2014

Barak Valley Express (numbers 15693/15694) was a daily mail/express train that used to connect Silchar, a town in the south of Assam, to Lumding Jn, in Northeast India. [1] The train was cancelled in September 2014 due to gauge conversion in the North Cachar Hills section of North East Frontier Railway, part of Indian Railways. [2] Though it was a mail/express type train, due to its timings and stops it was also considered a passenger train.

The name of train is featured in the opening scene of 1998 Bollywood movie Dil Se.

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References

  1. "India's disappearing railways – in pictures". the Guardian. 13 November 2014. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  2. Chatterjee, Arup K. (25 January 2019). The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-93-88414-23-4.