Mumbai, 15 March 2012

Western Railway today made an announcement on introduction of a new Mumbai Central-New Delhi Bi-weekly Duronto Express.

According to the announcement, train no. 22209/22210 Mumbai Central-New Delhi Bi-weekly AC Duronto Express train will witness inaugural run on 18 March 2012 at 12.25 hours. The train no. 2209 will reach New Delhi at 10.10 hours next day.

The regular run of this train will start from 23/3/2012 from Mumbai Cental & from 20/3/2012 from New Delhi.

Accordingly, Train No. 22209 Mumbai Central-New Delhi Bi-weekly AC Duronto Express will leave Mumbai Central at 23.15 hrs on every Monday & Friday from 23/3/2012 to reach New Delhi at 16.55 hrs the next day.

Similarly, train No. 22210 New Delhi-Mumbai Central Bi-weekly AC Duronto Express will depart form New Delhi at 23.30 hrs on every Tuesday & Saturday from 20/3/2012 and arive at Mumbai Central at 17.00 hrs the next day.

The train will consist of I AC, AC 2 Tier, AC 3 Tier coaches and Pantry Car.

It will not have any commercial halt between Mumbai Central-New Delhi in both the directions.

The booking of train No. 02209 (Inaugural run), 22209 (Regular run) will start form 16th March, 2012.

The train was announced in year 2011-12 railway budget by then railway minister smt Mamata Banerjee.

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