Hampered by heavy rains and flooding of tracks in Palghar district in Maharashtra and adjoining Gujarat, the high-speed Talgo train arrived from New Delhi in Mumbai on Tuesday, nearly three hours behind schedule, on its first full-fledged trial run.
The train, which had departed from New Delhi Railway station at 7.55 pm, arrived at Mumbai Central station at 11.36 am. “The train was delayed because of heavy rains en route and a point failure at Mathura Junction,” a Western Railway spokesperson said. When the Talgo train arrived at the Mumbai Central, it was
welcomed warmly by GC Agrawal, General Manager, Western Railway, AK Agarwal, Chief Mechanical Engineer Mukul Jain, Divisional Railway Manager of Mumbai Central division. They inspected the entire train and discussed various technical aspects with personnel manning the train.
The train took nine minutes lesser time than taken by the Rajdhani Express. While it takes 15.50 hours for the Rajdhani Express to travel from New Delhi to Mumbai Central. Despite having been delayed more than two hours, Talgo train took 15.41 hours to reach Mumbai Central. In the normal course, Talgo would have taken 12 hours and 47 minutes to travel from New Delhi to Mumbai central. “Hadn’t it been for the heavy rains and technical reasons, it would have taken three hours less than the Rajdhani in reaching Mumbai Central,” a WR spokesperson said.