Trains of SECR

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South East Central Railways is a unit of Indian Railways with Bilaspur as its headquarters. It is carved out of two divisions of South Eastern Railways erstwhile Bengal Nagpur Railways, Bilaspur and Nagpur by creating another division at Raipur. Although NO Division was added from Central Railways, the name South East Central is adopted as it is in between Central Railways and South Eastern Railways. The railway code is SECR and it caters to Chattisgarh, Maharasthra, Madhya Pradesh and little portion of Orissa. Major Junctions include Nagpur, Bilaspur, Raipur, Durg and Gondia. A Narrow Gauge track enters in Jabalpur Station which is the headquarters of West Central Railways.

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[edit] Limit ending of SECR

Nagpur(Excluding) for Central Railways

Chanda Fort (Excluding)

Jharsuguda(Excluding) for South Eastern Railways

Katni Junction Excluding

Mandir Hasaud(Raipur)) including for East Coast Railways

Chindwara (Including)) for Central Railways

Bhilai sheds for the WAM4 type of Electric Locomotives while Raipur shelters WDM2, WDM2A and WDM3A Diesel class Locomotives.

[edit] Numbering

Bilaspur Division is categorized by 82XX series of Indian Railway Numbering for Express Trains and 28XX for Super Fast Express Trains which is shared by South Eastern Railways and East Coast Railways.

Raipur has ZDM series Narrow Gauge Locomotives which caters main Narrow Gauge railways

[edit] Popular trains

  1. Chattisgarh Express between Bilaspur and Amritsar Via, Nagpur, Bhopal and New Delhi
  2. Chattisgarh Sampark Kranti Express between Durg and Nizamuddin Via Bilaspur, Katni and Bina
  3. Amarkantak Express between Durg and Bhopal Via, Bilaspur, Jabalpur and Itarsi
  4. Gorakhpur Durg Express Bi weekly Via Bilaspur, Katni, Varanasi
  5. Betwa Express between Durg and Kanpur Central bi weekly via, Bilaspur, Katni, Allahabad
  6. Gewra Road Nagpur Intercity Express Daily via Bilaspur Raipur
  7. Intercity Express between Bilaspur and Nagpur Via Durg and Raipur
  8. Janshatabdi Express between Gondia and Raigarh
  9. Bilaspur Bhopal Express Via Katni and Bina
  10. Chennai Bilaspur Express Weekly Via Gondia, Chandafort, Ballarshah and Vijayawada

[edit] Other trains terminating at South East Central Railways

  1. Korba - Trivandrum Bi weekly via, Nagpur, Vijayawada, Chennai, Coimbatore
  2. Durg -Chappra Saranath Express Via Varanasi, Katni, Bilaspur
  3. South Bihar Express between Patna/Tatanagar and Durg via Jharsuguda
  4. Yesvantpur(Bangalore) -Korba Weekly Express via Secunderabad, Nagbhir, Gondia,Raipur,Bilaspur
  5. BSP-TPTY Express between Tirupati and Bilaspur bi weekly via Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Raipur
  6. Korba-Bilaspur-Vizag Express Daily between Visakhapatnam and Korba

[edit] See also