| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Service type | Superfast, Duronto Express |
| First service | 1 April 2010 |
| Current operator(s) | Northern Railways |
| Route | |
| Start | Delhi Sarai Rohilla |
| Stops | 2 |
| End | Jammu Tawi |
| Distance travelled | 577.754496 km (359 mi) |
| Service frequency | 3 days a week. 12265 Delhi Sarai Rohilla Jammu Tawi Duronto Express – Tuesday, Friday & Sunday, 12266 Jammu Tawi Delhi Sarai Rohilla Duronto Express – Monday, Wednesday & Saturday |
| On-board services | |
| Class(es) | AC 1st Class, AC 2 tier, AC 3 tier, Sleeper Class |
| Seating arrangements | No |
| Sleeping arrangements | Yes |
| Catering facilities | No Pantry Car Coach attached |
| Technical | |
| Rolling stock | Standard Indian Railway Duronto coaches |
| Track gauge | 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) |
| Operating speed | 109.435392 km/h (68 mph) (Maximum Speed), 64.37376 km/h (40 mph) (Average Speed), including halts |
The 12265 / 66 Delhi Sarai Rohilla Jammu Tawi Duronto Express is a Superfast express train of the Duronto Express category belonging to Indian Railways - Northern Railway zone that runs between Delhi Sarai Rohilla and Jammu Tawi in India.
Jammu Tawi is a railway station in Jammu city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Duronto Express is a category of long-distance non stop source to destination trains run by the Indian Railways. Initially these trains did not have any ticketing stops between the origin and the destination, but since January 2016 it is possible to book tickets from those technical stops. "Duronto" means "Non-stop" in Bangla. These trains' coaches have characteristic yellow-green livery which contains a bi-meaning signature which are a field full of flower and a river flowing over it, 2nd meaning is a boy is running on the fields which signifies the meaning of Duronto. Duronto Express services connect the several metros and major state capitals of India. As of now, there are only two Duronto expresses that runs on daily basis, one being Nagpur-CSMT Duronto and other one being Mumbai Central-Rajkot AC Duronto.
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 a route length of 67,368-kilometre (41,861 mi) and total track length of 121,407-kilometre (75,439 mi) as of March 2017. Routes are electrified with 25 kV AC electric traction while 33% of them are double or multi-tracked.
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It operates as train number 12265 from Delhi Sarai Rohilla to Jammu Tawi and as train number 12266 in the reverse direction serving the states of Delhi & Jammu and Kashmir.
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. It is bordered by Haryana on three sides and by Uttar Pradesh to the east. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, the second-highest in India after Mumbai, while the whole NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban area is now considered to extend beyond the NCT boundaries, and include the neighboring satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Bahadurgarh and Sonipat in an area now called Central National Capital Region (CNCR) and had an estimated 2016 population of over 26 million people, making it the world's second-largest urban area according to the United Nations. As of 2016, recent estimates of the metro economy of its urban area have ranked Delhi either the most or second-most productive metro area of India. Delhi is the second-wealthiest city in India after Mumbai and is home to 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires. Delhi ranks fifth among the Indian states and union territories in human development index. Delhi has the second-highest GDP per capita in India.Furthermore, it is considered one of the world's most polluted city by particulate matter concentration.
Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a state from 1954, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century. The underlying region of this state were parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, whose western districts, now known as Azad Kashmir, and northern territories, now known as Gilgit-Baltistan, are administered by Pakistan. The Aksai Chin region in the east, bordering Tibet, has been under Chinese control since 1962.
