Lucknow Mail

Lucknow Mail
लखनऊ मेल
لکھنؤ میل
Overview
Destination board of Lucknow Mail
Service type	Superfast
Status	Operating
Locale	Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
Current operator(s)	Northern Railways
Route
Start	Charbagh Railway Station, Lucknow
Stops	7
End	New Delhi Railway Station, New Delhi
Distance travelled	492 km
Average journey time	NDLS TO LKO - 8 hrs 40 mins & LKO TO NDLS - 9 hrs
Train number(s)	12230 down / 12229 up
On-board services
Class(es)	Sleeper, General, First AC, Second AC, Third AC
Seating arrangements	Available
Sleeping arrangements	Available
Technical
Operating speed	64 km/hour down, 70 km/hour up

The Lucknow Mail is an Indian Railways train running between Lucknow and New Delhi on a daily basis. Its numbered 12229 when starting from Lucknow and terminating at New Delhi, 12230 between New Delhi and Lucknow. It is the most important train on this route and has got an ISO 9000 certification after Bhopal Express.The train has CBC coupling which gives passengers easy and comfortable journey with less jerks while travelling and the coaches strongly hold each other. The train can house large number of passengers in its coaches. The train got maximum number of AC (11) coaches than any other train in India (except the Gujarat mail no.(12901/12902) which got maximum no of A C Coaches (12) in non rajdhani and non shatabdi class super fast trains in India). The several booking classes are AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, Sleeper and General.^[1] ^[2] The full route of the train is electrified, the work between Moradabad and Ghaziabad was finished on 22 January 2016 and now the Lucknow Mail gets an end to end electric loco.

Destination board of Lucknow Mail

From the Past

Lucknow Mail originally had 29 Up and 30 Down numbers before rationalisation of number schemes. With the new rationalisation scheme the train was assigned with service numbers 4229 from Lucknow and 4230 from New Delhi. In the 2005-06 railway Budget, it was elevated to Superfast category without withdrawing any previous intermediate stops. During the tenure of Mamta Banerjee as Railway Minister a new five digit numbering scheme was introduced and present numbers 12229 and 12230 were assigned to Lucknow Mail.

Journey

The down train (#12230) departs New Delhi at 22:05 usually from Platform 16 and reaches Lucknow at 06:45 the following morning. The up train (#12229) departs Lucknow at 22:15 usually from Platform 1 and reaches New Delhi at 07:15 the following morning.^[3] The Time table is as follows 12229 Lucknow Charbagh Railway Station to New Delhi

Station Code	Station Name
LKO	Lucknow Charbagh railway station
HRI	Hardoi
SPN	Shahjahanpur Junction
BE	Bareilly railway station
RMU	Rampur Junction
MB	Moradabad railway station
HPU	Hapur Junction
GZB	Ghaziabad railway station
NDLS	New Delhi railway station

12230 New Delhi to Lucknow Charbagh railway station

Destination board of Lucknow Mail

Coaches

Coach Composition are as follows-

12229 LKO NDLS Loco-SLR-GEN-S1-S2-S3-S4-S5-S6-S7-S8-S9-B1-B2-B3-B4-B5-H1-HA1-A1-A2-A3-A4-GEN-SLR

12230 NDLS LKO Loco-SLR-GS1-A4-A3-A2-A1-HA1-H1-B5-B4-B3-B2-B1-S9-S8-S7-S6-S5-S4-S3-S2-S1-GS2-SLR

Loco in-charge for this train is WAP-7 from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (GZB) shed.

References

↑ indianrail.gov.in
↑ http://www.irctc.co.in/Popular_trains.html
↑ "Train timings". Retrieved 2007-04-05.

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Lucknow Mail

From the Past

Journey

Coaches

See also

References