Rajdhani of Anga Region, Jamalpur - Tilrath - Jamalpur Passenger Crossing Munger Ganga Railway Bridge At Full Speed (Maximum Permissible Speed, i.e., MPS).
This DEMU has Red Color coaches with Livery matching that of Rajdhani Express, hence locally referred to Janta Rajdhani Express.

Munger Ganga Bridge (मुंगेर गंगा सेतु), is a rail-cum-road bridge across the Ganges, at Munger in the Indian state of Bihar. The bridge connects Munger-Jamalpur twin cities to various districts of North Bihar. Munger Ganga Bridge is the third rail-cum-road bridge over Ganga in Bihar.
The 3.692-kilometre-long (2.294 mi) bridge costing Rs. 9,300 million is located 55 km downstream of the Rajendra Setu near Mokama and 68 km upstream of the Vikramshila Setu at Bhagalpur. The bridge will form a link between NH 80 on the southern side of the Ganges and NH 31 on the northern side of the Ganges. It connects Jamalpur Junction and Ratanpur stations on the Sahibganj Loop line of Eastern Railway through a new junction namely Sabdalpur Junction on north end of bridge to Sahebpur Kamal and Umeshnagar near Khagaria Junction on the Barauni-Katihar section of East Central Railway. The Bridge connects districts of Begusarai and Khagaria to the Divisional headquarters Munger city.

Construction work on the bridge was inaugurated by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, through video conference system, in 2002. Bridge was formally opened for freight trains on 12 March 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was finally opened for passenger trains on 11 April 2016 by Minister of state for Railways, Manoj Sinha by flagging off Begusarai-Jamalpur DEMU train. In his inaugural speech the MOS Mr. Manoj Sinha announced that the bridge will be named "Sri Krishna Setu" in the honour of the Premier and 1st Chief Minister of Bihar Dr. Srikrishna Sinha "Sri Babu".Road on bridge is complete too but approach roads are not ready due to lack of land acquisition.

At present 10 pairs of trains run on this bridge--
Jamalpur - Tilrath - Jamalpur DEMU (73451/73452)
Jamalpur - Tilrath - Jamalpur DEMU (73453/73454)
Jamalpur - Khagaria - Jamalpur DEMU (73461/73462)
Jamalpur - Khagaria - Jamalpur DEMU (73464/73463)
Jamalpur Saharsa Passenger Special (05521/05522)
Raxaul - Hyderabad - Raxual Weekly Special (07006/07005)
Darbhanga - Secunderabad - Darbhanga Bi-Weekly Special (07008/07007)
Barauni - Secunderabad - Barauni Weekly Special (07009/07010)
Bhagalpur - Saharsa Intercity Special (05501/05502)
Bhagalpur - Gandhidham Mahamana Special (09451/09452)

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