Visakhapatnam–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express

The Visakhapatnam – Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express is a daily Express train service of the Indian Railways. It was launched on 24 March 2010.

Daggubati Purandeswari, Union Minister of State for Human Resources, flagged off the train at Visakhapatnam railway station in the presence of the local MLAs, MPs of Vizag district and East Coast Railway officials.

This train is presently operated by the South Coast Railway of Indian Railways. The train runs between Visakhapatnam Junction and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus covering 1,498.5 km (931.1 mi) in 29 hours and 15 minutes and from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Visakhapatnam in 28 hours and 20 minutes.

The train was earlier numbered as 12749 and 12750. The train frequency was changed from Bi-weekly to Daily as presented in the Railway Budget 2013-14. But From 10 September 2013 onwards reducing the status of 12749/12750 Visakhapatnam-Mumbai LTT from SF to ‘ordinary express’ renumbered as 18519/18520. The train no. 22847/22848 passing through same starting point VSKP and ending point LTT via Nagpur is weekly SF passing through Nagpur Junction, Manmad Junction and Nashik Road.

Stoppages-
Train number 18519 stops at Samalkot Jn, Rajahmundry,
Tanuku,
Bhimavaram,
Akividu,
Kaikaluru,
Gudivada,
Vijayawada Junction,
Kazipet,
Moula Ali,
Secunderabad Junction,
Lingampalli, Vikarabad,
Tandur, Wadi,
Gulbarga,
Solapur and Pune en route to Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. Train no 18520 stops at the same stations, but the other way around.

Coach composition-
The train consists of One First Class Ac + One Two Tier AC coach+ Three Three tier AC coach, ten Sleeper Class coaches, Six Unreserved General coaches and two Unreserved Luggage cum Sleeper Coaches.

Loco Links-
The train is regularly hauled by WDP4D locomotive from LTT to Wadi to Vijayawada Junction with WAP4 / WAP7 again at Vijayawada WDP4D with a loco reversal at Vijayawada.

Pune Junction railway station (station code: PUNE) is the main railway junction of the city of Pune, India. It is one of the major railway junctions in Maharashtra. Pune Junction consists of 6 platforms. It also has a suburban train network.

It has two accesses, from HH Aga Khan Road on the south and Raja Bahadur Mills Road from the north. It is controlled and regulated by the Pune Police and Central Reserve Police Force.

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