The much-awaited Rajdhani Express will be formally flagged off from Agartala railway station by Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain today, 28 October, official sources said.
“Agartala-Anand Vihar Rajdhani Express train would be flagged off from Agartala railway station on 28 October by Union Minister of State for Railways, Rajen Gohain. Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy would be the Chief Guest of the programme," Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Pranab Jyoti Sharma said.
Though the train will be flagged off today, it will formally start running from 6 November. It will run once a week on Mondays from Agartala and Wednesdays from Anand Vihar in New Delhi.
The total journey time will be 40 hours and 50 minutes and the train will stop at 16 stations.
The train will have 14 coaches, including one AC first class, two AC two tiers, eight AC three tiers, one pantry car and two power-cum-luggage vans.
After Guwahati and Dibrugarh in Assam, Agartala will be the third city in the North East to get a Rajdhani.
Tripura made its entry to the country's broad gauge railway map in 2008.
Tripura Transport Minister Manik Dey, State PWD Minister Badal Chowdhury, two Lok Sabha MPs from Tripura – Jitendra Chowdhury and Sankar Datta – will also be present in the inaugural function.
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