New loco allotment for the fastest Duronto of IR..
Puffed up HWH WAP-7 Sealdah Duronto goes bewildered and wrecks havoc at 130 km/hr!!!
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Finally got the much awaited catch!! Hauled by a beautiful...
more... looking and honking 30300 WAP- 7 of HWH shed, the 30 minutes late running 12260 New Delhi (NDLS)- Sealdah (SDAH) A.C. DURONTO Express goes bewildered and tears apart Mirzapur Bankipur station on HB Chord enroute at its scorching MPS!!! Now-a-days, the train is getting mixed link of either GZB WAP- 7/ GZB WAP- 5/ HWH WAP- 4/ HWH WAP- 7. Seems GZB and HWH ELS is having a cat-fight over the allocation of loco to the first, fastest and most pampered Duronto of the country.
Going by the average speed of 88 km/hr in both the directions, it is the fastest train of India. But by the maximum speed attained in the journey, the fastest train of India is the Bhopal Shatabdi.
12259/ 12260 The train uses the Sealdah- Asansol- Dhanbad- Gaya- Mughal Sarai- Allahabad- Kanpur- New Delhi route of ER/ ECR/ NCR/ NR to cover 1458 kms in 16h 5m.