I had bread omelette for breakfast from the pantry and veg thaali for lunch and dinner both –sans Chapati. Then we passed major stations like Jagi Road, Guwahati, an amazingly lush green stretch to Golpara, over the wide Brahmaputra on the Naranarayan Setu to New Bongaigaon, Alipurduar Junction to New Jalpaiguri – 1042 km later! The station had quite a posh, airport look to it, with 3 wide platforms. While most of the passengers get down before the last stop, my objective was completing it to the T, for the entire experience.īack to the journey, after New Tinsukia came Hojai on Day 2, Sunday- the top growing district in Assam, with a staggering literacy rate of 91%. With 56 halts across eight distinct states in the country, it’s a vision looking at the transcending landscape outside and the subtle cultural variations around. This train has Third AC, Sleeper and unreserved coaches along with a Pantry Car, carrying a total of over 1500 passengers at an operating speed of 50 km/h. You realize many things that actually affect you during a train journey such as this, but more on it later. I’ll be honest, I may have traveled in many ways to many places, but this one, long shot in a train for 83hrs straight, made me nervous. Since the express only operates on Saturdays from here, my journey would come to a destination on Wednesday, about 09:50hrs. I started off from Platform 2 at Dibrugarh – the originating station, at 23:45hrs. Now let’s begin with the good things – and mind you, they can well compensate. Take a trip on a few trains before boarding the Vivek Express, and make sure your immunity isn’t too weak. If you aren’t well-versed with long train journeys in India, this is definitely not recommended. I’d like to add a disclaimer to people who would want to take this journey – please do not make this your first. While holding the prestigious record for the longest running train in the Indian Subcontinent, it is also the 6th longest in the world.Īnd as exciting, adventurous and literally rocking as it sounds – it isn’t nearly as easy.
#Longest rail route of india series#
Announced in the Railway Budget of 2011-12 by then Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, four pairs of Express Trains under the Vivek Express series were started as commemoration to the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanand.
This brings us to the longest route on the Indian Railways, with 4,273 km in about 83 odd hours on the Vivek Express – Dibrugarh (Assam) to Kanyakumari. Himsagar Express, connecting Katra (J&K) to Kanyakumari falls on number 3, covering a distance of 3,797 km in around 73 hrs. The second one is a Superfast from Silchar (Assam) to Thiruvananthapuram (Tamil Nadu), covering 3,931 km in about 76.5hrs.
Contrary to common conception that the longest distance would be from North-South, say Kashmir to Kanyakumari, the top 2 longest routes in India actually connect North East to South. Say hello to Indian Railways train #15906, the Vivek Express. Something - probably the first time ever, to be covered on vlog (in three parts, that too!). Something that tested my patience and most definitely challenged my mind. Here’s presenting an account of India’s longest train journey – bothin terms of distance and time. The quintessential sips of chai in the white little IRCTC cups, the calls of a hundred varied vendors in the train and stations, the co-passengers with such interesting background stories - each taking their own personal journey on one common track and the ever-changing landscape out of your window – are some of the many dear memories we travel with, along with our luggage on a long distance train journey.
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