Duronto Express

Duronto Express ("Rebel" or "rebellious" or "Restless" in a positive way) is a category of long distance trains run by the Indian Railways. The special feature of these trains is that they run non-stop from source to destination, barring technical halts. All Duronto Express trains can be easily recognized by the characteristic yellow-green livery of their passenger coaches.

Duronto service map

 Several Duronto Express services connect the metros and major state capitals of India. The Duronto Express trains are projected to be the fastest trains between the particular pair of cities they serve, although this is not necessarily true for all services.

Efficiency and Speed

The Duronto Expresses are one of the fastest trains in India. These trains run faster than Rajdhani Express trains which hold the record of the fastest long-distance trains in India.This has been made possible as these trains, unlike the Rajdhani Express, will have no intermediate stoppages and run in much the same speed clocked by Rajdhani.For example, the new bi-weekly non-stop train between New Delhi and Sealdah will take 16 hours to cover the journey, as against 17 hours taken by Rajdhani Express.

Jaipur Duronto Express at Jaipur Junction.

The trains will, however, have technical stoppages at a few stations for facilitating staff and loco change but the transit time will come down drastically.The trains will adhere to the speed limit of 110 km/h {non stop}. The Chennai and Pune Duronto run at a speed of 130 km/h. Also, the Duronto trains were known to be much cheaper than the Rajdhanis while they run faster and are more efficient than the Rajdhanis. They also had AC three tier-Economy coaches which are Air conditioned coaches with sleeping berths, now present only in Garib Rath Trains. Berths are usually arranged as in 3AC but with three tiers across the width and three longways.

Delhi Duronto stationed at Allahabad

They were slightly less well-appointed, usually no reading lights or curtained off gangways. Bedding is usually excluded from fare and was available with a payment of 25 (US$0.45) per passenger. However, these coaches were soon suspended and the Duronto trains had no Economy coaches after that. In March 2011, the cost of travel in the Duronto Express too went up as Dinesh Trivedi from the Trinamool Congress became the first Minister of Railways to announces a hike in railway fare. The decision to hike railway fares resulted in trouble across the Government and were rolled back, only to be raised again on April 1. A feature exclusive to the Duronto was the LHB Sleeper coach. The sleeper class is the most common coach, and usually ten or more coaches could be attached. These are regular sleeping coaches with three berths vertically stacked. In broad gauge, it carries 72 passengers per coach in regular ICF coaches and 78 berths in the new LHB coaches that the Duronto trains have.

List of Duronto Express trains

The Duronto trains are to ply between the metro cities of India. During the inaugural announcement of these services in the Railway Budget 2009–10 (made on 3 July 2009), 12 weekly, bi-weekly and tri-weekly Duronto trains were announced. In the next rail budget of 24 February 2010, ten more Duronto were announced. The trains, though announced in a chronological order, were not introduced accordingly. Some trains, like the Visakhapatnam Duronto, have been postponed for a whole year. The introduction of the Duronto Express trains depends on many factors. The availability of coaches is one of the primary factors involved.There are currently 29 active Duronto services running in India. The following is a current list of Duronto trains between cities in India. The services mentioned in red are either terminated or converted to other services. While the numbers indicate when the trains were announced, the way they are arranged in the list indicates the order in which they were actually flagged off.

Service	Train number	Train name	Source	Departure	Destination	Arrival
1	12213	Sarai Rohilla Duronto	Yesvantpur Junction	23:40	Delhi Sarai Rohilla	06:50
	12214		Delhi Sarai Rohilla	23:00	Yesvantpur Junction	07:30
2	12219	Secunderabad Duronto	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	23:05	Secunderabad Junction	11:05
	12220		Secunderabad Junction	23:05	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	11:05
3	12221	Howrah Duronto	Pune Junction	15:15	Howrah Junction	19:40
	12222		Howrah Junction	08:20	Pune Junction	11:35
4	12223	Ernakulam Duronto	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	20:50	Ernakulam Junction	17:45
	12224		Ernakulam Junction	21:30	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	18:15
5	12227	Indore Duronto	Mumbai Central	23:15	Indore Junction	11:15
	12228		Indore Junction	23:00	Mumbai Central	11:50
6	12239	Jaipur Duronto	Mumbai Central	23:15	Jaipur	13:55
	12240		Jaipur	19:15	Mumbai Central	12:05
7	12241	Amritsar Duronto	Chandigarh	19:00	Amritsar Junction	23:15
	12242		Amritsar Junction	05:25	Chandigarh	09:30
8	12243	Coimbatore Duronto	Chennai Central	07:15	Coimbatore Junction	15:20
	12244		Coimbatore Junction	15:05	Chennai Central	21:50
9	12245	Yesvantpur Duronto	Howrah Junction	11:00	Yesvantpur Junction	16:00
	12246		Yesvantpur Junction	11:15	Howrah Junction	16:00
10	12259	Delhi Duronto	Sealdah	18:40	New Delhi	11:00
	12260		New Delhi	20:05	Sealdah	12:25
11	12261	Chattrapati Shivaji Duronto	Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus	17:15	Howrah Junction	19:40
	12262		Howrah Junction	08:20	Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus	10:30
12	12263	Nizamuddin Duronto	Pune Junction	11:10	Hazrat Nizamuddin	07:15
	12264		Hazrat Nizamuddin	11:00	Pune Junction	07:00
13	12265	Jammu Duronto	Delhi Sarai Rohilla	22:15	Jammu Tawi	07:10
	12266		Jammu Tawi	19:25	Delhi Sarai Rohilla	04:00
14	12267	Ahmedabad Duronto	Mumbai Central	23:25	Ahmedabad Junction	06:00
	12268		Ahmedabad Junction	23:45	Mumbai Central	06:15
15	12269	Chennai Duronto	Chennai Central	06:40	Hazrat Nizamuddin	10:35
	12270		Hazrat Nizamuddin	15:50	Chennai Central	20:10
16	12271	Lucknow Duronto	Lucknow Charbagh	23:30	New Delhi	07:30
	12272		New Delhi	23:30	Lucknow Charbagh	07:10
17	12273	Kolkata Duronto	Howrah Junction	13:00	New Delhi	06:05
	12274		New Delhi	13:00	Howrah Junction	06:00
18	12275	Allahabad Duronto	Allahabad Junction	22:40	New Delhi	06:05
	12276		New Delhi	23:00	Allahabad Junction	06:20
19	12277	Puri Duronto	Howrah Junction	14:25	Puri	21:40
	12278		Puri	06:30	Howrah Junction	13:45
20	12281	Bhubaneshwar Duronto	Bhubaneswar	08:10	New Delhi	06:05
	12282		New Delhi	13:00	Bhubaneswar	11:05
21	12283	Kochi Duronto	Ernakulam Junction	23:30	Hazrat Nizamuddin	19:30
	12284		Hazrat Nizamuddin	21:35	Ernakulam Junction	15:30
22	12285	Hyderabad Duronto	Secunderabad Junction	13:30	Hazrat Nizamuddin	10:35
	12286		Hazrat Nizamuddin	15:50	Secunderabad Junction	14:00
23	12289	Nagpur Duronto	Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus	20:15	Nagpur	07:15
	12290		Nagpur	20:50	Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus	07:50
24	12293	Lokmanya Tilak Duronto	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	17:25	Allahabad Junction	12:25
	12294		Allahabad Junction	19:30	Lokmanya Tilak Terminus	14:50
25	12297	Pune Duronto	Ahmedabad Junction	22:30	Pune Junction	07:00
	12298		Pune Junction	21:45	Ahmedabad Junction	06:20
26	12847	Digha Duronto	Howrah Junction	11:15	Digha	14:15
	12848		Digha	15:35	Howrah Junction	18:35
27	22201	Sealdah Duronto	Sealdah	20:00	Puri	04:00
	22202		Puri	19:50	Sealdah	04:00
31	22209	Mumbai Duronto	Mumbai Central	23:15	New Delhi	16:55
	22210		New Delhi	23:30	Mumbai Central	17:00
32	22211	Ajmer Duronto	Ajmer	05:50	Hazrat Nizamuddin	12:35
	22212		Hazrat Nizamuddin	15:10	Ajmer	21:50
33	22213	Patna Duronto	Shalimar	22:05	Patna Junction	06:40
	22214		Patna Junction	20:40	Shalimar	05:40
28	22203	Visakhapatnam Duronto	Visakhapatnam Junction	22:30	Secunderabad Junction	08:00
	22204		Secunderabad Junction	20:30	Visakhapatnam Junction	06:05
Future Services
29	22205	Madurai Duronto	Chennai Central	22:30	Madurai Junction	07:00
	22206		Madurai Junction	22:40	Chennai Central	07:10
30	22207	Trivandrum Duronto	Chennai Central	16:30	Trivandrum Central	05:15
	22208		Trivandrum Central	21:40	Chennai Central	10:15