Intercity Express (Indian Railways)
The Intercity Express is the express-train service in India which connects major railway junctions and state capitals. These act as long-distance reserved suburban trains with sitting accommodation. These are quite fast and maintain a high average speed for short distances along with priority over other trains.
Features
The trains are less expensive than other express trains, and usually reach their destinations within 5–6 hours. They usually complete a round trip in a day, returning to the origin station at night and using only a single rake. Generally, they have only sitting accommodations and a pantry car. Intercity Express trains run daily, except:
- Jabalpur - Ambikapur Intercity Express Runs Daily "(On Starting it runs only three days a week)"
- Jabalpur - Habibganj Intercity Express daily
- Rajgriha Intercity Express, Rajgir→Danapur Intercity
- Indore - Jabalpur Intercity Express, three days a week
- Bhubaneshwar-Visakhapatnam Intercity Express, daily
- Bhopal - Gwalior Intercity Express, five days a week
- Indore - Hazrat Nizamuddin Intercity Express, which takes 11 hours to cover the 550 kilometres (340 mi) route. This train uses two rakes and also has unreserved, sleeper service and three coach classes.
- Bengaluru-Ernakulam intercity express also uses 2 rakes
- Bhubaneswar - Rourkela Intercity Express, daily
- Mangaluru − Coimbatore Intercity Express uses 2 rakes and which is shared with Ernad Express
- Haldibari - Kolkata Intercity Express runs Tri-Weekly covering 630 km in 11 hours 10 minutes. It has Chair Car & AC Chair Car Coaches. The train is Superfast in Nature
- Katihar−Patna Intercity Express runs Except Sunday
- Lucknow - Agra Cantt. Superfast Intercity Express
Train names
The following trains are intercity-express trains, but have different names:
- Kaghaznagar Express
- Ekatmata Express
- Taj Express
- Kovai Express
- Brindavan Express
- Lal Bagh Express
- Pinakini Express
- Satavahana Express
- Janmabhoomi Express
- Pallavan Express
- Vindhyachal Express
- Tippu express
- Chamundi Express
- Pragati Express
- Deccan Queen Express
- Deccan Express
- Venad Express
- Vanchinad Express
- Vaigai Express
- Amritha Express
- Shatabdi Express
- Jan Shatabdi Express
- Gujarat Express
- Hutatma Express
Routes
Intercity Express routes are (round-trip, unless noted):
- New Delhi-Kanpur
- Agra Cantt New Delhi Intercity Express
- New Delhi-Chandigarh (one-way)
- Dehradun-New Delhi (one-way)
- New Delhi-Gwalior
- Mumbai Pune Intercity Express
- Mumbai-Nagpur
- Akola - Hyderabad Kacheguda Intercity Express
- Nagpur Ajni - Amravati - Nagpur Ajni Intercity Express
- Bareilly New Delhi Intercity Express
- Jaipur-Jodhpur Intercity Express
- Bhopal - Indore Intercity Express
- Bhopal-Gwalior Intercity Express
- Bhopal - Jabalpur Intercity Express
- Bandra Surat Intercity Express
- Surat Jamnagar Intercity Express
- Lucknow-Gorakhpur
- Bhopal-Dahod
- Bhopal-Jaipur Express
- Bhubaneshwar-Visakhapatnam Intercity Express
- Indore-Gwalior Intercity Express
- Indore-Bhind Express
- Indore - Hazrat Nizamuddin Intercity Express
- Indore-Jodhpur Ranthambore Express
- Indore-Udaipur Veer Bhoomi Express
- Gwalior-Udaipur
- Ratlam-Ajmer
- Bangalore-Hubli Siddaganga Intercity Express
- Bhubaneswar-Rourkela Intercity Express
- Chennai Coimbatore Intercity Express
- Bangalore-Shimoga Town Intercity Express
- Ernakulam Junction-Thiruvananthapuram Vanchinad Express
- Thiruvananthapuram-Guruvayur Intercity Express
- Tiruchirappalli-Tirunelveli Intercity Express
- Patna-Dehri On Sone Intercity Express
- Guwahati-Ledo Intercity Express
- Ranchi-Dehri On Sone Intercity Express
- Ernakulam Junction - Kannur Main Intercity Express
- Coimbatore JN - Mangalore Central Intercity Express
- Katihar-Siliguri Intercity Express
- Kamakhya - Dibrugarh Intercity Express
- Siliguri-Dhubri Intercity Express
- Howrah Malda Town Intercity Express
- Alipurduar-Lumding Intercity Express
- New Jalpaiguri-Balurghat Intercity Express
- Patna-Dhanbad Intercity Express
- Sahibganj-Danapur Intercity Express
- Varanasi Lucknow Intercity Express
- Puri-Sambalpur Intercity Express
- Alipurduar-New Jalpaiguri Intercity Express
- Kamakhya-Dekargaon Intercity Express
- Jaynagar-Danapur Intercity Express
- Lucknow - Agra Cantt. Superfast Intercity Express
- Bhabua-Ara-Patna Intercity Express
- Kanpur- Pratapgarh Intercity Express[1]
- Valsad - Dahod Intercity Express
- Pune Solapur Intercity Express
- Vadodara Ahmedabad Intercity Express
- Jhansi Lucknow Intercity Express
- Varanasi Lucknow Intercity Express
- Jabalpur–Rewa Intercity Express
- Kanpur - Allahabad Intercity Express
See also
- Duronto Express
- List of named passenger trains of India
- Rajdhani Express
- Shatabdi Express
- Superfast Mail/Express
- Rajya Rani Express