The Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express would run via Cuttack, Sambalpur and Jharsuguda once in a week with effect from February 10 from Bhubaneswar and from February 11 from New Delhi, informed an official release of the East Coast Railway (ECoR).
This train would run as 20817 Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani and 20818 New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express trains, it informed.
While the train will leave Bhubaneswar at 7.10 am on every Saturday and reach New Delhi at 10.40 on Sundays.
In the return direction, the train would leave New Delhi at 5.05 pm on every Sunday and arrive at Bhubaneswar at 8.35 pm on Mondays.
This train will have stoppages at Cuttack, Sambalpur City, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Chakradharpur, Anara, Gomoh, Koderma, Gaya, Mughalsarai and Kanpur Central between Bhubaneswar and New Delhi from both the directions.
On introduction of the Rajdhani Express via Sambalpur City, the 22811/22812 Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, which runs via Bhadrak and Adra, would remain cancelled on Saturdays from Bhubaneswar and Sundays from New Delhi.
The Bhubaneswar-New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express via Bhadrak will run twice a week on every Wednesday and Sunday from Bhubaneswar and on every Monday and Friday from New Delhi instead of earlier three days in a week and will run as per its scheduled stoppages and timings.