New Delhi: The Railway Ministry has decided to introduce Indore-Puri-Indore weekly Humsafar Express from Saturday.
On the inaugural day, the special train will start from Indore at 18.15 hrs towards Puri. In the return direction, it will leave Puri at 08.15hrs on Monday.
However, the regular run will commence from Indore every Tuesday from May 22 and from Puri every Wednesday from May 23.
19317 Indore-Puri Humsafar Express will leave Indore at 12.40hrs every Tuesday and will arrive at Puri at 19.55hrs the following day. In the return direction, 19318 Puri-Indore Humsafar Express will leave Puri at 23.55hrs every Wednesday and reach Indore at 11.25hrs every Friday.
This train with 16 AC-3 tier coaches will have stoppages at Dewas, Bhopal, Itarsi, Nagpur, Rajnandgaon, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, Jharsuguda Road, Sambalpur City, Angul, Bhubaneswar and Khurda Road between Indore and Puri from both directions.