Udyan Abha Toofan Express
The 13007 / 13008 Udyan Abha Toofan Express was an Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Eastern Railway zone that used to run between and Sri Ganganagar in India.
It operated as train number 13007 from Howrah to Sri Ganganagar and as train number 13008 in the reverse direction, serving the 8 states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan. Eastern Railway cancelled its operations permanently from 19 May 2020 with 16 other pairs of trains such as the Sealdah-Rampurhat Intercity Express, Barddhaman-Rampurhat Express, Sealdah-Anand Vihar Terminal Express, Sealdah-Varanasi Express, Howrah-Anand Vihar Yuva Express, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri AC Express, Sealdah-Sitamarhi Express, Kolkata-Patna Express, Howrah-Amritsar Express, and 7 other passenger trains.
Timetable and Coaches
13007 U ABHA TOOFAN Express operated from Howrah to Shri Ganganagar passing through 110 station as per the timetable below:13008 U ABHA TOOFAN Express operated from Shri Ganganagar to Howrah passing through 105 station as per the timetable below:
13008 also split at Bhatinda Junction towards Kalka passing through 11 stations listed below:
| 108 | BHATINDA JN Platform: | A D | 23:20 23:50 | |
| 109 | RAMPURA PHUL Platform: | A D | 00:28 00:30 | |
| 110 | BARNALA Platform: | A D | 01:02 01:04 | |
| 111 | DHURI JN Platform: | A D | 01:40 01:45 | |
| 112 | NABHA Platform: | A D | 02:06 02:08 | |
| 113 | PATIALA Platform: | A D | 02:28 02:30 | |
| 114 | RAJPURA JN Platform: | A D | 03:15 03:18 | |
| 115 | AMBALA CITY Platform: | A D | 03:32 03:36 | |
| 116 | AMBALA CANT JN Platform: | A D | 03:55 04:20 | |
| 117 | DAPPAR Platform: | A D | 04:40 04:42 | |
| 118 | CHANDIGARH Platform: | A D | 05:05 05:13 | |
| 119 | CHANDI MANDIR Platform: | A D | 05:21 05:23 | |
| 120 | KALKA Platform: | A D | 05:50 Destination |
13007 had two reserved classes: Sleeper and 3AC. It also had five unreserved coaches, two general cum luggage coaches and one handicapped coach. In 13008, one Sleeper coach and one 3AC coach were split at Bhatinda Junction towards Kalka while an additional Sleeper coach was added.
Service
The 13007 Howrah–Sri Ganganagar Udyan Abha Toofan Express covered the distance of 1978 kilometres in 45 hours 25 mins and in 46 hours 20 mins as 13008 Sri Ganganagar–Howrah Udyan Abha Toofan Express.Routing
The 13007 / 13008 Howrah –Sri Ganganagar Udyan Abha Toofan Express ran from Howrah Junction via,,,,,,,,,,, Rohtak Junction, Bhatinda Junction to Sri Ganganagar.It reversed direction of travel at.
Traction
As the route is partly electrified, a Howrah-based WAP-4 hauled the train from Howrah Junction up to handing over to a Ludhiana-based WDM-3A which powered the train for the remainder of the journey.Timings
- 13007 Howrah–Sri Ganganagar Udyan Abha Toofan Express left Howrah Junction on a daily basis and reached Sri Ganganagar on the 3rd day.
- 13008 Sri Ganganagar–Howrah Udyan Abha Toofan Express left Sri Ganganagar on a daily basis and reached Howrah Junction on the 3rd day.