Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani
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The Trivandrum Rajdhani is a passenger train service in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, connecting the national capital New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

 to Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

, the capital of state Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. It runs from Thiruvanathapuram Central
Trivandrum Central
Trivandrum Central is the main railway station in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and the second most important rail hub in South India. It is also the most profitable station...

 to Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station
Nizamuddin Railway Station
Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is one of the three main railway stations of Delhi, India. Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and is being developed to ease congestion on New Delhi Railway Station. Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station is served by Northern Railway....

. It is the longest running Rajdhani Express
Rajdhani Express
Rajdhani Express is a passenger train service in India connecting New Delhi with other important destinations, especially state capitals. Rajdhani means "The Capital" in Hindi.- History :...

 train
, which covers about 3149 km (1,956.7 mi). It has a record for the highest section speed, reaching 104 kilometre per hour between Ratnagiri and Sawantwadi Road (225 km or 139.8 mi in 2 h 10 min). It also gets a speed of 140 kilometre per hour between Udupi and Karwar (267 km). It moves at an average speed of 78 kilometre per hour between Delhi and Trivandrum.It uses Vadodara(BRC)WAP4 for its run between H.Nizamuddin and Vadodra and Golden Rock(GOC)WDP3A from Vadodara to Trivandrum Central.it also sometimes gets a GZB(GHAZIABAD) WAP7 from Vadodara to H.Nizamuddin. It is also the first Rajdhani bound to south to get the new model LHB coaches.

Note: The length of 'Konkan Railway' is actually 738 km (and not 1034 km) since it is 'inflated by 40%' (296 km) to calculate fare. So the calculated section speed would be meaningless.

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Trivandrum Central
Trivandrum Central is the main railway station in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the largest and busiest railway station in Kerala in terms of passenger movement and the second most important rail hub in South India. It is also the most profitable station...

 to Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station (Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

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Station Code Station Name Arrival Departure
TVC Trivandrum Central Starting Station 19:16
QLN Kollam Junction 20:10 20:12
ALP Alappuzha 21:15 21:17
ERS Ernakulam Junction (South) 22:30 22:35
TCR Thrissur 23:52 23:55
SRR Shoranur Junction 00:40 00:45
CLT Kozhikode 02:18 02:20
CAN Kannur 03:45 03:47
MAJN Mangalore Junction 06:00 06:10
UD Udupi 07:12 07:14
KAWR Karwar 09:08 09:10
MAO Madgaon Junction 10:15 10:25
SWV Sawantwadi Road 11:25 11:27
RN Ratnagiri 13:35 13:40
PNVL Panvel 18:05 18:10
BSR Vasai Road 19:30 19:35
BRC Vadodara Junction 00:10 00:26
KOTA Kota Junction 06:50 07:00
NZM Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station 12:40 Destination Station
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