RPM WAP7 WITH 22660 YOG NAGARI RISHIKESH - KOCHUVELI SUPERFAST EXPRESS ENTERING / ARRIVING HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN RAILWAY STATION OF NORTHERN RAILWAYS.

22660/Yog Nagari Rishikesh - Kochuveli Superfast Express
योग नगरी ऋषिकेश - कोच्चुवेली सुपरफास्ट एक्सप्रेस
YNRK/Yog Nagari Rishikesh -- KCVL/Kochuveli

The 22659 / 60 Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways - Southern Railway zone that runs between Kochuveli and Yog Nagari Rishikesh in India. This train runs via Alappuzha. From April 2021, the service to Dehradun was discontinued permanently and was diverted permanently to Yog Nagari Rishikesh and was renamed as Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express. The slip coaches to Haridwar also discontinued and extended to Yog Nagari Rishikesh. Therefore it won't go to Dehradun; instead it was diverted permanently to Yog Nagari Rishikesh.
It operates as train number 22659 from Kochuveli to Yog Nagari Rishikesh and as train number 22660 in the reverse direction serving the nine states of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
The 22659 / 60 Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express runs with highly refurbished LHB coaches. It has 2 AC Two tier, 6 AC Three tier, 8 Sleeper Class, 3 General Unreserved, 1 Pantry Car and 2 EOG (End On Generator) coaches.
The 22659 Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express covers the distance of 3459 kilometres in 51 hours 35 mins (60 km/hr) & in 54 hours 15 mins as 22660 Yog Nagari Rishikesh -Kochuveli Superfast Express (60 km/hr).
The 22659 / 60 Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express runs from Kochuveli via Kollam Junction, Alappuzha, Ernakulam Junction, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Mangalore Junction, Madgaon, Madgaon, Panvel, Vasai Road, Vadodara Junction, Kota Junction, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Ghaziabad Junction, Meerut City Jn., Haridwar Junction, Virbhadra to Yog Nagari Rishikesh.
As large sections of the entire route are yet to be fully electrified, it is hauled by 2 locomotives during its run. A Sabarmati based EMD loco WDP-4D hauls the train from Kochuveli until Vadodara Junction handing over to a Vadodara based WAP-7 or WAP-5 until Yog Nagari Rishikesh.
It was introduced as a superfast express between Kochuveli - Dehradun Superfast Express. As Dehradun Railway doesn't hold 24 coaches in platform some slip coaches will be detached at Haridwar which ran as Haridwar - Kochuveli Slip Superfast Express. Since Yog Nagari Rishikesh Railway Station was developed and reconstructed, the railway authority had decided to withdraw coaches running to Dehradun and slip coaches to Haridwar. Instead they decided to run it as a train without slip coaches. After Yog Nagari Rishikesh was developed it was extended to Rishikesh, instead of Dehradun and slip coaches were made to run as a full coach train to Rishikesh. Therefore it runs as Kochuveli - Yog Nagari Rishikesh Superfast Express.
After April 2021, the service to Dehradun and the slip coaches to Haridwar were permanently discontinued and was extended to Rishikesh instead of Dehradun and it will run as Yog Nagari Rishikesh - Kochuveli Superfast Express.

Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station (station code: NZM) is a railway station in South Delhi, India. It is under the administrative control of the Delhi Division of the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It is one of the five main stations in Delhi and is the originating and terminal station for 60 trains. The station was named after the Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya. Hazrat Nizamuddin station was upgraded to help relieve congestion at New Delhi railway station and is recommended for first time travellers, particularly those bound for Agra as it much quieter and easier to navigate than its larger sister.
Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station is managed by Northern Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is adjacent to Delhi's two important arteries, the Ring Road and Mathura Road, and Sarai Kale Khan Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT).
Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station connects all the major cities and was developed to ease congestion on New Delhi which is located approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the north. It originates and terminates Rajdhani Express trains going towards Bengaluru, Chennai, Secunderabad, Madgaon, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram.
Indian Railways intends to save ₹41,000 crore in energy consumption and generate 1000 megawatts (MW) from solar power. Out of 1000 MW to be produced under solar power; 500 MW will be produced from rooftop solar. In order to meet the target Northern Railways has selected Vivaan Solar, a Gwalior based company to install 0.6 MW of rooftop solar project at the railway station in 2016. The solar power project to be set up under Public Private Partnership is to be executed under design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis.

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