LGD WAP4 Netravati Express rolls Thrissur

Location:Thrissur railway station,Kerala. Time:10th April 2014 15:29 ED WAP4 hauled 16301 Shoranur Jn-Trivandrum Central Venad Express meets LGD WAP4 22590 hauled 22 coach 16346 Trivandrum Central-Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Netravati Express at Thrissur station. Initially Netravati was plied between Mumbai to Mangalore via the inland Pune, Gulbarga, Krishnarajapuram, Palakkad route. Trains on the old route used to take 48 hours to reach Mangalore from Mumbai. After the Konkan Railway line was operational in 1998,the route has been changed via the Konkan Railway and the Mangalore-Mumbai running time was reduced drastically to 16 hours. The train route was later extended till Cochin Harbour Terminus and further extended till Trivandrum Central which is the capital city of Kerala. Mangalore city is situtated at the banks of the Netravati River. Since this trains terminating point was Mangalore back then, the name of the train was set as Netravati Express. 16345 departs Lokmanya Tilak at 11:40 daily and arrives Trivandrum at 18:40 next day. Travel Time: 31h 0m 44 halts Distance: 1501 km Avg Speed: 48 km/hr 16346 departs Trivandrum at 09:50 daily and arrives Lokmanya Tilak at 16:40 next day. Travel Time: 30h 50m 44 halts Distance: 1501 km Avg Speed: 48 km/hr Inaugural Run Mon Mar 02, 1998