Ahmedabad Udaipur Express

Ahmedabad Udaipur Express
Overview
Service type Express
Status Gauge Conversion
Last service 31 December 2016 (2016-12-31)
Current operator(s) Western Railways
Route
Start Ahmedabad Junction railway station M G
Stops 7
End Udaipur City M G
Distance travelled 298 km (185 mi)
Service frequency Daily
On-board services
Class(es) A/C sleeper, Sleeper Class, General Unreserved
Seating arrangements Yes
Sleeping arrangements Yes
Catering facilities No
Technical
Rolling stock 2
Track gauge meter (converting to broad gauge)
Electrification No
Operating speed 50 km/h (31 mph) maximum
28.38 km/h (18 mph) including halts.
YDM 4 at Ahmedabad

The 19944 / 43 Ahmedabad Udaipur Express was a meter gauge express train belonging to Indian Railways - Western Railway zone that ran between Ahmedabad Junction & Udaipur City in the states of Gujarat & Rajasthan in India. It ran as train number 19944 from Ahmedabad Junction to Udaipur City and as train number 19943 in the reverse direction.

The train was discontinued due to track conversion to broad gauge.[1][2][3]

Operations

This train ran from Delhi Sarai Rohillia to Ahmedabad Jn via Ajmer,Udaipur,Himmatnagar till November 2004 after that the train was running from Ajmer to Ahmedabad via Udaipur. After the Gauge Conversion between Ajmer and Udaipur the train ran from Udaipur to Ahmedabad from 2005 to December 2016,it had one A/c sleeper till 2013 then it was removed due to less demand.

The express train covered the distance of 298 km (185 mi) in 10 hours 20 mins (28.84 km/h (17.92 mph)) as 19944, and in 10 hours 40 mins as 19943 (27.94 km/h (17.36 mph))

The express train ran from Ahmedabad Junction via Himmatnagar, Dungarpur, Kharwa Chanda to Udaipur City. The train was hauled by a Sabarmati based YDM 4 for its entire journey.

The express train had 5 sleeper class, 5 General Unreserved and 2 SLR (seating cum luggage rake) coaches. It did not carry a pantry car coach.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_detail.jsp?lang=0&dcd=3494&id=0,4,268
  2. ↑ https://indiarailinfo.com/train/1677
  3. ↑ https://indiarailinfo.com/train/16
  • "[IRFCA] Welcome to IRFCA.org, the home of IRFCA on the internet". irfca.org. Retrieved 2014-04-05.
  • "Ahmedabad-Udaipur train canceled due to landslide | DeshGujarat". deshgujarat.com. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
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