Lucknow Mail

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Lucknow Mail
लखनऊ मेल
12229 Lucknow Mail standing on Platform 16 in New Delhi, India.jpg
12229 Lucknow Mail on Platform 16 in New Delhi.
Overview
Service type Superfast Mail
StatusOperating
Locale Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
Current operator(s) Northern Railways
Route
Termini Lucknow Junction (LJN), Lucknow
New Delhi Railway Station (NDLS), New Delhi
Stops7
Distance travelled491 km
Average journey timeNDLS TO LJN - 8 hrs 50 mins & LJN TO NDLS - 8 hrs 55 mins
Train number(s)12230 DN / 12229 UP
On-board services
Class(es) Sleeper, General, First AC, Second AC, Third AC
Seating arrangementsAvailable
Sleeping arrangementsAvailable
Technical
Operating speed56 km/hour DN, 55 km/hour UP
Lucknow Mail (Lucknow - New Delhi) route map Lucknow Mail (Lucknow - New Delhi) AC Express route map.png
Lucknow Mail (Lucknow - New Delhi) route map

The 12229 / 12230 Lucknow S. F Mail is an Daily Mail train of Superfast Express category of Indian Railways running between Lucknow and New Delhi on a daily basis. It is numbered 12229 when starting from Lucknow and terminating at New Delhi, 12230 from New Delhi to Lucknow. It has received an ISO 9000 certification after Bhopal Express. Lucknow Mail is the first LHB train of Indian Railways running permanently with 24 coaches (22 coaches+2 EOG).

Contents

Lucknow Mail along with Shram Shakti Express, Prayagraj Express, Shiv Ganga Express and Shaan-e-Bhopal Express enjoys highest priority all over the route.

Lucknow Mail Destination Board Lucknow Mail Destination Board3.jpg
Lucknow Mail Destination Board
12229 Lucknow Mail on Platform 16 in New Delhi railway station 12229 Lucknow Mail on Platform 16 in New Delhi railway station.jpg
12229 Lucknow Mail on Platform 16 in New Delhi railway station

From the past

Lucknow Mail originally had 29 Up and 30 Down numbers before rationalisation of number schemes. With the new rationalisation scheme the train was assigned with service numbers 4229 from Lucknow and 4230 from New Delhi. In the 2005–06 railway Budget, it was elevated to superfast category without withdrawing any previous intermediate stops. During the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as Railway Minister a new five digit numbering scheme was introduced and present numbers 12229 and 12230 were assigned to Lucknow Mail.

Journey

The down train (#12230) departs New Delhi at 22:05 usually from Platform 16 and reaches Lucknow at 06:45 the following morning. The up train (#12229) departs Lucknow at 22:00 usually from Platform 1 and reaches New Delhi at 06:45 the following morning. The train boarding station was changed on 15/11/2018 from Lucknow Charbagh to Lucknow Junction Now on 15/08/2024 the boarding station is changed back to Lucknow Charbagh. [1] The Time table is as follows:

12229 Lucknow Junction railway station to New Delhi

Station CodeStation Name
LJN Lucknow Junction
HRI Hardoi
SPN Shahjahanpur
BE Bareilly
RMU Rampur Junction
MB Moradabad
HPU Hapur Junction
GZB Ghaziabad Junction
NDLS New Delhi

12230 New Delhi to Lucknow Junction railway station is the reverse.

LHB AC Coach of Lucknow Mail LHB coach of Lucknow Mail.jpg
LHB AC Coach of Lucknow Mail

Coaches

Coach Composition are as follows-

12229 LJN NDLS Loco-EOG-UR-UR-S1-S2-S3-S4-S5-S6-S7-M1-M2-B1-B2-B3-B4-H1-A1-A2-A3-A4-EOG

12230 NDLS LJN Loco-EOG-A4-A3-A2-A1-H1-B4-B3-B2-B1-M2-M1-S7-S6-S5-S4-S3-S2-S1-UR-UR-EOG

Loco in-charge for this train is WAP-7,WAP 5 from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (GZB) shed.

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References

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