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The 12507 / 12508 Aronai Express is a superfast express train belonging to
Badarpur Jct, Lumding Jct, Guwahati, New Bongaigaon Jct, New Cooch Behar, New Jalpaiguri Jct, Malda Town, Rampurhat Jct, Kharagpur Jct, Cuttack Jct, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam Jct, Vijayawada Jct, Katpadi Jct, Coimbatore Jct, Palakkad Jct, Ernakulam Town, Kottayam, Chengannur, Kollam Jct
Indian Railways
Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...
. It is operated by Northeast Frontier Railway zone
The Northeast Frontier Railway (abbreviated NFR) is one of the Zones and divisions of Indian Railways, 19 railway zones of the Indian Railways. It is headquartered in Maligaon, Guwahati in the state of Assam, and responsible for operation and e ...
that runs between in Kerala and in Assam. It is the 28th longest train service in the world. Initially, Thiruvananthapuram–Silchar Aronai Superfast Express ran between and . On 21 November 2017, it was extended to Silchar. After this extension, it is now the second longest running train in India.
The express train service was started on 14 April 1987. It operates as train number 12507 from Thiruvananthapuram Central to Silchar and as train number 12508 in the reverse direction serving the 8 states of Assam
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, West Bengal
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, Bihar
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, Jharkhand
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, Odisha
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, Andhra Pradesh
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, Tamil Nadu
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and Kerala
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.
Service
The 12508 – Aronai Express covers a distance of , with a total travel time of 74 hours and 44 minutes, travelling at a speed of 52.60 km/h.Major stops
Badarpur Jct, Lumding Jct, Guwahati, New Bongaigaon Jct, New Cooch Behar, New Jalpaiguri Jct, Malda Town, Rampurhat Jct, Kharagpur Jct, Cuttack Jct, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam Jct, Vijayawada Jct, Katpadi Jct, Coimbatore Jct, Palakkad Jct, Ernakulam Town, Kottayam, Chengannur, Kollam Jct
See also
* Longest train services of Indian Railways * Dibrugarh–Tambaram Express * Chennai–New Jalpaiguri SF Express * Guwahati–Bengaluru Cantt. Superfast Express * New Tinsukia–Bengaluru Weekly Express * Bangalore Cantonment–Agartala Humsafar Express * Yesvantpur–Kamakhya AC Superfast ExpressReferences
External links
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