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Available Best new travel on-board magazine Rajdhani, shatabdi, award at the duronto, gatimaan hospitality india and Circulation explore the Readership world annual international 3,75,000 awards 5.9 CRORE INDIA’s annually Received best story & best photo award ONLY from abci on-board railway in 2016 magazine *Association of Business Communicators of India

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A readership of OVER 49 LAC per month, higher than any travel magazine in India

A selection of the most compelling stories and a variety of genres to keep you engaged on long journeys

News, views, travel and entertainment from all corners of India compiled into a single interactive format

A separate Hindi section that caters to a niche Indian readership

The latest updates and schedules from the to take care of every travel need

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Cat 2 Metro Cities - 4 Jammu RAIL BANDHU REACH Cat 3 State Capitals/Metro Cities - 7 Kathua Chakki bank Amritsar Cat 4 Other Cities - 93 Phagwara Shimla Jalandhar Kalka Ludhiana Chandigarh Moga Saharanpur Dehradun Bhatinda Haridwar Muzzafarnagar Roorkee Kathgodam Connects New with other important Meerut Delhi Aligarh destinations (mostly state capitals). Tinsukia Mathura Dibrugarh Etawah Alipurduar Jaipur Lucknow Kokrajhar Bongaigaon Moranhat Ajmer Kanpur Mariani Simaluguri Sawai Madhopur Jalpaiguri Guwahati Barauni Lumding Allahabad Ballia Patna Kishanganj Kota Diphu Abu Road Mughal Sarai Katihar Connects metro cities with other cities Varanasi Jasidih Palanpur Gaya Asansol Mehsana Adra important for tourism or business. Koderma Ahmedabad Ratlam Durgapur Nadiad Nagda Bhopal Bokaro Anand Ranchi Bankura Are day-trains, which return to the Indore Bilaspur Raj Nandgaon Kolkata Bharuch Tatanagar Kharagpur originating station the same day I NDI A Surat Durg Balasore Gondia Valsad Raipur Bhadrakh Nagpur Cuttack Bhubaneshwar Mumbai Puri Pune Kannur A long-distance non-stop train category Nilayam Kazipet Seram Warangal ARABIAN BAY OF Dharmavaram Visakhapatnam that connects several metros and major SEA Anantapur Secunderabad BENGAL Ratnagiri Hyderabad state capitals. These trains do not Vijayawada Panjim Raichur Karmali have any ticketing stops between the Madgaon originating and the destination stations,

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5 Anand Vihar (Delhi)-Sealdah -Anand Vihar (Delhi) 31 Pune-Ahmedabad-Pune

6 Patna-Mumbai CST -PATNA 32 Howrah-Digha Flag Station-Howrah

7 New Delhi-Barauni -New Delhi 33 Puri-Sealdah-Puri

8 Bandra T-H Nizamuddin-Bandra T 34 Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam

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13 Pune-Howrah-Pune 39 Shalimar-Patna-Shalimar Duronto EXPress 14 LokManya Tilak-Ernakulam-LokManya Tilak 40 Mumbai CST-Patna-Mumbai CST 15 Mumbai CST-Indore-Mumbai CST 41 Kalka-Shimla-Kalka

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