Lucknow-Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express is the experimental initiative by Indian Railways.It is the first train which has a single-halt at Kanpur station between Lucknow and Delhi, operated by private operators. It is an Indian railways aircraft-like luxury chair car service.
The Railways, in spite of protests from its unions, is going ahead with its 100-day agenda of handing over operations of two of its trains to the private sector. The Railway Board is mulling on a second such route, which too would be within the 500-km distance range.
It is said that the custody of the train will be transferred to IRCTC, which is to be rope up with private operators for the purpose of on-board services. The purpose behind this is to test the trains into the private sector.
The Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express was announced in 2016 and has been recently introduced in the new time table.
Time table
The Tejas Express (train number 12585) will depart from Lucknow Junction at 6.50 am, halt at Kanpur Junction at 8:05 am and finally reach New Delhi at 1.35 pm. On its return journey, (train number 12586) it will leave from New Delhi at 3.35 pm,halt at Kanpur at 8:30 PM and arrive at Lucknow Junction at 10.05 pm.The train will run on all days of the week except Sunday and Thursday.
The first Tejas train is running between Mumbai and Goa since 2017. The new Tejas Express train will have 23 chair cars and executive class coaches and will offer premium services and comforts to the passengers.
Key Features of Tejas Express
▪Automatic entry, exit doors in the passenger area, sliding coach doors and interconnecting doors.
▪Dust sealed gangways, CCTV’s, aircraft-like personalised LCD entertainment-cum-information screens fitted at the back of every seat, on-board Wi- Fi facility, comfortable seats and mobile charging points.
▪Anti-graffiti vinyl wrapping and a swanky mini pantry
▪Yellow and orange colour-scheme seats that will match the exteriors of the train.
▪Personalized reading lights and modular bio-toilets.
