Abita Begum Express: Delhi Jn. - Raxaul [OLD –now runs as Satyagraha Exp.] DLI d 17.15; RXL a 15.10/RXL d 09.00;DLI a 07.35. (Abita Ahmed Begum, wife of former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed) Agnibeena Express: Howrah - Asansol (former Bidhan Exp.) HWH d 18.20; ASN a 21.30/ASN d 05.30; HWH a 08.45. (Name of work by Bengali poet Nazrul Islam) Ahilyanagari Express: Thiruvananthapuram – Indore Jn. TVC d 05.30; INDE a 03.50/INDE d 16.40; TVC a 17.20. (Another (older) name for Indore, built by Holkar queen Ahilyabai) Ahimsa Express: Ahmedabad - Pune . ADI d 16.00; PUNE a 03.50/PUNE d 19.45; ADI a 07.35. (Ahimsa = non-violence, associated with Gandhi) Air-Conditioned Express (AC Express) : Name used for several trains in the past when air-conditioning was rare. Howrah - New Delhi [OLD-now Rajdhani/Duronto Exp], Mumbai Central - New Delhi [OLD-now Rajdhani/Duronto Exp.], Chennai Central - New Delhi [OLD-now Rajdhani/Duronto Exp.], Mumbai CST - Howrah [OLD- now Duronto Exp.], Mumbai CST - Madras Central [OLD- now Duronto Exp(proposed)], Chennai Central - Howrah [OLD- now Duronto Exp(proposed)]. Ajanta Express: Secunderabad – Manmad. SC d 18.10; MMR a 06.30/MMR d 21.00; SC a 09.10 (Ajanta caves near Aurangabad) Akal Takht Express: Sealdah – Amritsar. SDAH d 07.40; ASR a 16.55/ASR d 06.05; SDAH a 15.20; (Sikh holy site at the Golden Temple in Amritsar) Ala Hazrat Express: Bhuj - Bareilly City. BHUJ d 12.50/15.20; BEC a 20.15\BEC d 06.00; BHUJ a 13.20/11.15. (Shrine of Muslim saint Ala Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raja Khan) Amarkantak Express: Durg – Bhopal. DURG d 18.20;BPL a 10.35/BPL d 15.30; DURG 07.45. (Source of the river Narmada) Amarnath Express: Gorakhpur / Barauni - Jammu Tawi. BJU d 05.00/GKP d 14.00; JAT a 12.00\JAT d 22.45; GKP a 20.45; BJU 05.15. Amarnath is a Hindu shrine in the Himalayas Amravati Express: Vijayawada - Hubli. BZA d 19.00; UBL 09.10/UBL d 12.20; BZA a 02.40. (Name of town - location of Buddhist stupa) Amravati Express: Howrah-Hubli-Madmagaon. HWH d 23.30; BZA d 19.00; VSG a 14.30/ VSG d 07.45; BZA d 03.15; HWH a 22.30. (Name of town - location of Buddhist stupa) Amrapali Express: Amritsar - Katihar Jn. KIR d 23.30; ASR a 12.00/ ASR d 07.15; KIR a 20.00. (From the name of the earlier train that terminated at Barauni, see above) Amrita Express: Palakkad Town – Trivandrum. PKDT d 22.15; PLKD d 22.50; TVC a 05.55/TVC d 23.00; PLKD d 06.20; PKDT a 06.40. (Named for Mata Amritanandamayi, a spiritual leader in Kerala) Ananya Express: Sealdah – Ajmer-Udaipur. SDAH d 13.15; AII d 20.00; UDZ a 03.15/UDZ d 00.30; AII d 06.15; SDAH a 14.30. (‘Unique') Ananthapuri Express: Trivandrum - Chennai Egmore . TVC d 16.20; NCJ d 18.00; MS a 07.20/MS d 19.25; NCJ d 08.50; TVC a 10.25. (One of the classical names of Trivandrum) Andaman Express: Jammu Tawi- Chennai . MAS d 05.30; JAT a 13.30/JAT d 23.45; MAS a 07.45 (Apparently just to keep the tradition of having a train named after every state or territory -- the Andaman’s islands and cannot have train services from the mainland, but at least can have a train named for them!) Andhra Kesari Express: Vijayawada - Mumbai [PROPOSED]. BZA d 08.40; SC d 14.40; CSTM a 04.55/CSTM d 20.05; BZA a 16.20. ('Lion of Andhra Pradesh') Andhra Pradesh Express: Hyderabad - New Delhi. HYB d 06.15; NDLS a 09.15/NDLS d 17.30; HYB a 20.00. (Name of state) Aradhana Express: Howrah – Okha. HWH d 22.40; OKHA a 18.55/OKHA d 07.25; HWH a 04.00. (‘Worship’?) Aranyak Express: Shalimar – Adra-Bhojudihi. SHM d 07.45; ADRA d 12.35; BHJD a 13.00/ BHJD d 13.35; ADRA d 14.05; SHM a 19.00. (‘Of the forest', perhaps referring to a novel of this name by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay) Aravalli Express: Bandra - Jaipur . JP d 09.00; ,BDTS a 06.15/BDTS d 21.00; JP a 18.15. (A mountain range) Archana Express: Rajendra Nagar - Jammu Tawi . RJQ d 07.00; PNBE d 07.25; JAT a 11.15/JAT d 20.15; PNBE d 23.50; RJQ A 00.00. (Worship ritual, 'Puja') Arunachal Express: Rangiya - Murkong Selek . KYQ d 17.55; RNY d 19.20; MZS a 03.50/MZS d 18.45; RNY d 03.30; KYQ a 04.40. (Name for the state, 'hills of the dawn') Ashram Express: Ahmedabad - New Delhi . ADI d 18.30; DLI a 11.00/DLI d 15.20; ADI a 07.35. (Gandhi's ashram at Ahmedabad) Assam Mail: Delhi - Guwahati [OLD-now Brahmaputra Mail] DLI d 23.40; GHY a 14.40/GHY d 12.00; DLI d 06.05. (Name of state/river) August Kranti Rajdhani Express: Mumbai - Hazrat Nizamuddin. NZM d 16.55; BCT a 09.55/BCT d 17.40; NZM a 10.40; ('August Revolution', the Quit India movement started in 1942) This train was the Bombay AC Rajdhani, and renamed in October 1992. Avantika Express: Mumbai - Indore . BCT d 19.05; INDE a 10.25/INDE d 15.45; BCT a 06.55. (Avantika is another (older) name for Ujjain, near Indore) Awadh Assam Express: Lalgarh - New Delhi . LJQ d 19.45; DLI d 08.30; GHY a 03.30/GHY d 21.30; DLI d 16.10; LJQ a 04.35. (Awadh, also Awadh -- name of a region) Awadh Express: Muzaffarpur/Gorakhpur – Bandra. (Awadh, also Awadh -- name of region) Awadh (Oudh) Tirhut Mail: Lucknow - Guwahati [OLD-now Guwahati-link Exp.] (Awadh, also Awadh -- name of region; Tirhut -- name of a place.) Azad Express: Chennai Central- Haldia (‘Free, independent') Azad Hind Express: Pune - Howrah ('Free India') The Azad Hind Fauj was a nationalist militia raised by Netaji Subhashchandra Bose against the British. Baidyanathdham Express: Puri - Patna (Hindu holy spot near Bihar) Bagh Express: Howrah - Kathgodam (May be 'garden', or more likely 'tiger' the latter could be a reference to Corbett National Park near Kathgodam) Bagha Jatin Passenger: Howrah - Bhadrak (Bagha Jatin or Jatindranath Mukherjee was a freedom fighter from West Bengal) Barak Valley Express: Lumding - Silchar (after gauge-conversion, will be Guwahati-Silchar-Ziribalm.) (River valley in Assam) Barisal Express: Sealdah - Barisal [OLD- now Bangladeshi Train.] (Name of place) Basava Express: Yeshwantpur - Bijapur (Basava, also known as Basaveshwara or Basavanna, was a 12th century reformer and theologian from the Bijapur area) Beas Link Express: Jodhpur – Jammu-Tawi (now as Ahmedabad-Jammu-Tawi (Beas River) Begumpura Express: Jalandhar – Varanasi (now Jammu-Varanasi Exp.) (Area near Jalandhar) Bhagirathi Express: Sealdah - Lalgola (Name of river, tributary of the Ganga) Bhagirathi Express: Chhapra - Allahabad City [OLD- now Ald-Ddn Exp. ] (Name of river, tributary of the Ganga) Bhagya Nagar Express: Secunderabad - Sirpur Kagaznagar- Balharshah. (Bhagyanagar is an old name for present-day Hyderabad) Bharat Darshan: Tourist journey, billed as a pan-Indian economy tourist train (‘Vision of India') Bharat Tirth: Tourist trains with circular itineraries run by IRCTC, primarily in the south (‘Pilgrimage of India') Bhopal Express: Hazrat Nizamuddin - Habibganj (Bhopal is the real destination near Habibganj) Bihar Sampark-Kranti Exp.: New Delhi - Darbhanga (Name of state) Bishwabharati fast Passenger: Howrah - Rampurhat (Rabindranath Tagore's university at Shantiniketan) Black Diamond Express: Howrah - Dhanbad (Coalfields) Blue Express: Chennai - Mettupalayam Nilgiri Express [unofficial] (From the earlier name, Blue Mountain Express -- see below) Boat Mail: Madras Egmore - Dhanushkodi [OLD-now up to Rameshwaram] (Connecting to Rameshwaram) Mumbai Jayanti: Mumbai - Kannyakumari [OLD-now Mumbai – Kannyakumari Exp.] Bombay VT Express: Mumbai CST – Howrah Gitanjali Exp (at present) Brahmaputra Mail: New Delhi - Dibrugarh (Name of river) Brindavan Express: Chennai - Bangalore (‘Garden', referring to the Brindavan Gardens in Mysore, since there used to be a connecting link from Bangalore to Mysore for passengers on this train. Note, however, Bangalore is also known as the Garden City.) Buddha Purnima Express: Benaras/Varanasi - Rajgir via Gaya ('Purnima' = full moon; Buddha Purnima is the day marking the birth of the Buddha) Buddhist Circuit: Tourist train covering sites of significance to Buddhism. Bundelkhand Express: Gwalior - Varanasi /Allahabad City. (Name of region in Madhya Pradesh) Cachhar Express: Lumding - Silchar (Name of region in Assam) Island Express: Kannyakumari - Bangalore (Kannyakumari is at the tip of the Indian peninsula, earlier known as Cape Comorin) Capital Express : Danapur - New Jalpaiguri/Kamakhya. (Perhaps originally intended to run from Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar. Danapur is 9km from Patna.) Cauvery Exp. Tiruchhi-Sengottai via Karaikudi-Manamadurai. (Now mas-mys) Century Express (NER timetable listing of Sanctuary Exp., arising from confusion over the spelling) Chalukya Express: Dadar - Bangalore via Miraj (Former kingdom in the area) Chambal Express: Howrah – Agra-Mathura-Kasganj. (Name of river/valley) Chambal Express: Howrah - Gwalior (Name of river/valley) Chamundi Express: Mysore - Bangalore (Temple to deity of this name at Mysore) Chandigarh Express: Kalka – Jodhpur/Chennai Central-Chandigarh/Dehradun. (Name of town) Chandrabhaga Express: Mumbai – Pandharpur-Sholapur via Miraj [proposed] (Local name of river Bhīma/Bhimarathi at Pandharpur) Ganga-Chambal Express: Gwalior - Barauni Jn. Mail (Name of region) Charminar Express: Chennai - Hyderabad (Charminar -- medieval minarets at Hyderabad) Chhattisgarh Express: Bilaspur – Amritsar/ Delhi - Durg (Name of region) Chauri Chaura Express: Kanpur – Benaras-Gorakhpur (Name of town) Cheran Express: Chennai - Coimbatore (Historical royal dynasty) Chetak Express: New Delhi - Udaipur (Legendary battle horse of Maharaja Pratap, ruler of Udaipur) Chitrakut Express: Jabalpur - Lucknow (Region in Uttar Pradesh) Circar Express: Chennai – Kakinada Port (Region in Andhra Pradesh) Classical India