Shatabdi Express: Difference between revisions

| fleet size      = 24

| line_used      = 24

| class          = Executive Chair Car, AC Chair Car

| entertainment  = Electric outlets, large windows

| speed          =maximum permissible 150 kmph (lower where infrastructure is not existed)

The Shatabdi along with the [[Rajdhani Express|Rajdhani]], the [[Duronto Express|Duronto]], the [[Vande Bharat Express|Vande Bharat]], the [[Gatimaan Express|Gatimaan]], and the [[Tejas Express]] are among the major in India and Indian Railways considers them as prestigious. Rajdhani Expresses, Shatabdi Expresses Duronto Expresses got the highest priority and presently gets the priority only after [[Vande Bharat Express|Vande Bharat]], [[Gatimaan Express|Gatimaan]], and [[Tejas Express]] after these three types came into existance.

The Shatabdi Express trains and The Tejas Express trains run over short to medium distances non-overnight while the [[Rajdhani Express]]es are medium to long-distance overnight trains. [[Rajdhani Express]]es connect the nation's capital [[New Delhi]] to capitals of states and other major cities while Duronto Expresses connect major cities to other major cities. All three or Rajdhani Shatabdi Duronto series of trains have a maximum permissible speed of {{convert|130|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} except one train and it is lower where infrastructure is unavailable. The exceptional among them, 12001 [[Bhopal Shatabdi]] express, however, runs at a maximum permissible speed of {{convert|150|km/h|mph|abbr=on}} in a part where infrastructure is existed atleast for this speed only but it is not permitted to go at 160 kmph even if the part of a route is fit though its Air Conditioned (AC) [[LHB Coaches]] have the capibility upto 160 kmph and it has no Non-Ac coach, its maximum permissible speed makes it the [[fastest train|second fastest train]] in India after the [[Gatimaan Express]] but if the rail infrastructure on [[Vande Bharat Express]] routes were to be improved, it could also go as fast as the Gatiman Express having 160 kmph maximum permissible speed and could go faster than the fastest Shatabdi Express.

The name "Shatabdi" means centenary in Sanskrit. The first Shatabdi Express train was introduced on 10 July 1988, by then Railways Minister [[Madhavrao Scindia]] and Prashant Mehta (I.A.S), to commemorate the birth centenary of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] the first Prime Minister of India, between [[New Delhi railway station|New Delhi]] and [[Jhansi Junction railway station|Jhansi Junction]]. It was later extended to [[Bhopal Junction railway station|Bhopal Junction]]. Its terminal station in Bhopal was subsequently moved from [[Bhopal Junction railway station|Bhopal Junction]] to [[Habibganj railway station|Habibganj.]]

Shatabdi Express trains offer fast connectivity with only a few intermediate stops. They are fully air-conditioned and of a much higher standard than most Indian trains. Shatabdi travelers were provided with bottled water, juice, coffee or tea, and meals relevant to the time of day of the journey but now they don’t including the [[Rajdhani Express]]. Travelers have to pay for food at an extra cost. All these new changes happened after the [[COVID-19]] situation in India.  

As Shatabdi Express are day-trains and return to the station of origin the same day, coaches have only seats and not berths. All of them have [[Indian Railways coaching stock|AC Chair Car]]. Most of the Shatabdi Express trains have, however, one or two coaches of [[Indian Railways coaching stock|Executive Class]] seating. Recently, Indian Railways have started offering [[Indian Railways coaching stock|Anubhuti Class]] seating also in some of them and some of them have [[Indian Railways coaching stock|Vistadome coach]] seating with about whole part transparent roof.

New onboard entertainment systems have also been installed on some of these trains where the passengers can view movies and television serials directly via satellite.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.financialexpress.com/photos/business-gallery/921595/shatabdi-express-gold-standard-operation-swarn-features-images-new-delhi-kathgodam-indian-railways/7/|title= Shatabdi Express is now ‘Gold Standard’; Free movies on WiFi to clean toilets, 15 facts every rail passenger will love|newspaper= Financial express |date=6 November 2017 |access-date=21 April 2021}}</ref>

|rowspan=2|'''1'''||12001||[[Habibganj–New Delhi Shatabdi Express|Rani kamlapati–New Delhi]]||rowspan=2|[[Bhopal]], [[Lalitpur, India|Lalitpur]], [[Jhansi]], [[Gwalior]], [[Morena]], [[Agra]], [[Mathura]]||rowspan=2|{{convert|705|km|abbr=on}}||rowspan=2|1988

|12002||New Delhi–Rani kamlapati

|rowspan=2|'''23'''||12277|| [[Howrah–Puri Shatabdi Express|Howrah - Puri]]|| rowspan="2" | [[Kharagpur]], [[Balasore]] [[Bhadrak]], [[Cuttack]], [[Bhubaneswar]]|| rowspan="2" | {{convert|611|km|abbr=on}}|| rowspan="2" |2011

|12278||Puri-Howrah

|2025

 

|2028

|rowspan=2| '''6'''

|rowspan=2| '''7'''

|rowspan=2| '''8'''