Lucknow Mail
 Destination board of Lucknow Mail | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Service type | Superfast |
| Status | Operating |
| Locale | Uttar Pradesh & Delhi |
| Current operator(s) | Northern Railways |
| Route | |
| Termini | Charbagh Railway Station, Lucknow New Delhi Railway Station, New Delhi |
| Stops | 7 |
| Distance travelled | 492 km |
| Average journey time | NDLS TO LKO - 8 hrs 40 mins & LKO TO NDLS - 9 hrs |
| Train number(s) | 12230 down / 12229 up |
| On-board services | |
| Class(es) | Sleeper, General, First AC, Second AC, Third AC |
| Seating arrangements | Available |
| Sleeping arrangements | Available |
| Technical | |
| Operating speed | 64 km/hour down, 70 km/hour up |
|Max speed = 110 km/hour
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The Lucknow Mail is an Indian Railways train running between Lucknow and New Delhi on a daily basis. Its numbered 12229 when starting from Lucknow and terminating at New Delhi, 12230 between New Delhi and Lucknow. It is the most important train on this route and has got an ISO 9000 certification after Bhopal Express.The train has LHB coaches which gives passengers easy and comfortable journey with less jerks, noise while travelling. The train can house large number of passengers in its coaches. The train got number of 10 AC coaches. The several booking classes are AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, Sleeper and General.[1] [2] The full route of the train is electrified, the work between Moradabad and Ghaziabad was finished on 22 January 2016 and now the Lucknow Mail gets an end to end electric loco.
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 Mamta 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 22:15 usually from Platform 1 and reaches New Delhi at 07:15 the following morning.[3] The Time table is as follows 12229 Lucknow Charbagh Railway Station to New Delhi
| Station Code | Station Name |
|---|---|
| LKO | Lucknow Charbagh railway station |
| HRI | Hardoi |
| SPN | Shahjahanpur Junction |
| BE | Bareilly railway station |
| RMU | Rampur Junction |
| MB | Moradabad railway station |
| HPU | Hapur Junction |
| GZB | Ghaziabad railway station |
| NDLS | New Delhi railway station |
12230 New Delhi to Lucknow Charbagh railway station
Coaches
Coach Composition are as follows-
12229 LKO NDLS Loco-EOG-GEN-GEN-S1-S2-S3-S4-S5-S6-S7-S8-B1-B2-B3-B4-B5-A1-A2-A3-A4-H1-EOG
12230 NDLS LKO Loco-EOG-H1-A4-A3-A2-A1-B5-B4-B3-B2-B1-S8-S7-S6-S5-S4-S3-S2-S1-GEN-GEN-EOG
Loco in-charge for this train is WAP-7,WAP-4 from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (GZB) shed.
See also
References
- ^ indianrail.gov.in
- ^ http://www.irctc.co.in/Popular_trains.html
- ^ "Train timings". Retrieved 2007-04-05.