The Yesvantpur–Puducherry Garib Rath Express was a

Garib Rath Express The Garib Rath (lit. Poor Chariot) trains are a series of No frills, no-frills trains operated by Indian Railways to provide air-conditioned train travel at a cheaper rate compared to regular trains. Garib Rath Express trains primarily operate ...

train that ran between

Bangalore Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

'' Yeshvantapur railway station'' and

Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to: Places in India * Puducherry (union territory), formerly known as Pondicherry ** Puducherry (city), capital of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry district The Puducherry District, also know ...

. It was the first train service from Bangalore to Puducherry. Following poor response, this train was cancelled and converted to an ordinary train with effect from 18 March 2014.

Service

It was initially started out as a

. The 12255/12256 Yesvantpur Puducherry Garib Rath Express was a weekly service. It operates as train number 12255 from Yesvantpur to Puducherry and as train number 12256 in the reverse direction. It covers a distance of 456 kilometres in each direction, however it takes 10 hours 5 mins when operating as train number 2255 at an average speed of 60 km/h (excluding halts), while its return journey as train number 12256 takes 10 hrs 20 mins at an average speed of 55 km/h (excluding halts). Due to poor patronage, the Garib Rath train was cancelled and an ordinary express started. The rake of the Garib Rath was used to make the Kochuveli Yesvantpur Garib Rath Express into a tri-weekly. The ordinary weekly express now leaves Yesvantpur as train number 16573 on Friday at 2100 hrs and arrives at Puducherry the next day at 0750 hrs covering 456 km at 10 hours and 50 minutes. Train number 16574 leaves Puducherry on Saturday at 2100 hours arriving at Yesvantpur the next day at 0820hrs taking 11 hours and 20 minutes for the journey.

Time Table

16573 – Yesvantpur to

16574 –

to Yesvantpur

Coach composition

It is a 22 coach train having Sleeper, 3AC and 2AC accommodations. The train has a rake-sharing agreement with the 16533/16534 Bhagat ki Kothi- Bangalore City Weekly express.

Locomotion

The train is hauled using diesel engines all the way from

Yeswanthpur Yashavantapura (formerly Yeshwanthpur), also known as Yeshvantpur, is a locality in the northwestern part of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located to the north of Malleshwara and west of Hebbala. The biggest wholesale mark ...

, with one locomotive reversal at Vriddhachalam and another at

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. The process of reversal takes around 45 minutes at each of these railway stations.

References

Indian Railways website

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