Railways operating record-breaking 9,111 trips during summer season of 2024
This marks a substantial rise compared to the summer of 2023, where a total of 6,369 trips were offered.
The Vivek Express which covers a distance of 4320 km in nine different states in 82 hours 50 minutes, summing to four days, 10 hours and 55 minutes is the longest route on the Indian Railways network in terms of distance and time, and is the ninth longest in the world, as per railways.
The train runs on Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari route, leaving Dibrugarh at 11:05 pm on Saturday and arrives in Kanyakumari on Wednesday at 9:55 am. The train has stoppages at over 56 stations.
In Asia, Indian Railways is one of the biggest railways that makes about a million passenger travel every day in different parts of the country.
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There are trains on almost every route in the country starting from the Himalayas in Jammu and end at the tip of mainland India at Kanyakumari.
The second train which covers the longest distance is Himsagar Express that connects Mata Vaishno Devi Katra to Kanyakumari covering a distance of 3785 km in 72 hours and 30 minutes.
Himsagar express departs from Katra on Monday at 9:55 pm and arrives Kanyakumari on Thursday at 10:55 pm.
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