| Bhopal Express | |
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A sleeper coach of the Bhopal Express |
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| Overview | |
| Current operator(s) | Indian Railways |
| Route | |
| Start | Bhopal Habibganj, Bhopal |
| No. of intermediate stops | 8 |
| End | Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi |
| Distance travelled | 700 km |
| Average journey time | 10 hrs 55 mins |
| Train number(s) | 12155 down / 12156 up[1] |
| Technical | |
| Operating speed | 64 km/hour down, 70 km/hour up |
Bhopal Express (Hindi: भोपाल एक्सप्रेस; also Shaan-E-Bhopal Urdu: شان - إ بهوبال - إكسبرس / بهوبال , Hindi: शान-ए-भोपाल एक्सप्रेस, English trans: The Pride of Bhopal) is a daily superfast train service, connecting Bhopal in central India to New Delhi. It has the distinction of being the fastest non-Shatabdi, non-Rajdhani in India, and being the first train to be certified for quality at the ISO 9000 level. It covers the 700 kilometres between Bhopal Habibganj and Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station in ten hours and fifty-five minutes.
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The down train (#12155) departs Bhopal at 21:05 and reaches New Delhi at 08:05 the following morning. The up train (#12156) departs New Delhi at 21:00 and reaches Habibganj at 07:35 the following morning.[1] Along the way, the train stops at the following stations:
The train is hauled by a Ghaziabad WAP 7 locomotive. It consists of one First AC, two AC-2 tier, three AC-3 tier, twelve Sleeper, four general/unreserved and two parcel coaches.
Bhopal Express is India's first ISO 9000-2001 certified train.[2]
Its AC First Class, AC 2-tier, AC 3-tier coach as well as the Sleeper coaches are GPS enabled and provide information such as current train speed, distance to final destination, distance to next stop, stoppage station name and timing performance on an LCD display. (The new coaches in Duronto trains are also GPS-enabled and provide the same information.) Almost every coach in the train has an IVR system informing about the destination station name, station importance, etc.