Puducherry To Kolkata : Full Journey : 12868 Puducherry - Howrah Aurobindo Express

PUDUCHERRY TO KOLKATA (WEST BENGAL) : FULL TRAIN JOURNEY : 12868 PUDUCHERRY - HOWRAH AUROBINDO SUPERFAST EXPRESS : ERODE WAP-7 LOCOMOTIVE

12868/Puducherry - Howrah SF Express (PT)
Other Names: Aurobindo SF Express
पुदुच्चेरी - हावड़ा सुपरफास्ट एक्सप्रेस
PDY/Puducherry (Pondicherry) -- HWH/Howrah Junction

The 12867 / 68 Howrah–Puducherry Superfast Express is a Superfast Express train belonging to Indian Railways South Eastern Railway zone that runs between Howrah Junction and Puducherry in India.
It operates as train number 12867 from Howrah Junction to Puducherry and as train number 12868 in the reverse direction, serving the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
The 12867 / 68 Howrah–Puducherry Express has one AC 2-tier, six AC 3-tier, 11 sleeper class, two general unreserved and two SLR (seating with luggage rake) coaches. It carries a pantry car.
The 12867 Howrah Junction–Puducherry Express covers the distance of 1,917 km (1,191 mi) in 33 hours 20 mins (58 km/h) and in 34 hours 10 mins as the 12868 Puducherry–Howrah Junction Express (56 km/h).
The 12867 / 68 Howrah–Puducherry Express runs from Howrah Junction via Kharagpur Junction, Khurda Road Junction, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada Junction, Tirupati, Katpadi Junction, Tiruvannamalai, Viluppuram Junction to Puducherry.
As the route is going to electrification, a Howrah-based WAP-4 electric loco pulls the train up to Visakhapatnam, then a Erode Junction or Lallaguda-based WAP-4 electric loco takes reverse direction and pulls the train to its destination.
12867 leaves Howrah every Sunday at night 11:30 PM IST and reaches Puducherry (Pondicherry) Tuesday at morning 8:50 AM.
12868 leaves Puducherry (Pondicherry) every Wednesday at afternoon 12:30 PM IST and reaches Howrah on Thursday at 10:22 PM IST.
The train is reversed at Visakhapatnam railway station.

Puducherry railway station (station code: PDY) is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway terminus of the Villupuram–Pondicherry branch line serving the city of Pondicherry, headquarter of Puducherry Union territory.
The Puducherry railway line is one of the oldest rail link in India and it was constructed in the year 1879 by the Puducherry Railway Company during the period of French and British rule in India. Under the supervision of South Indian Railway with the object of connecting the town and the port of Puducherry with South India and to develop the resources of the Puducherry Territory, the rail link between Puducherry and Villupuram has been established. Even though there was total enmity between the then Super Powers—the French and the English—when it came to economic development they had a very good understanding and the Puducherry Railway system was a good example of it.
The station is operated by the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways and comes under the Tiruchirapalli railway division. This Division may be the only Division in the world maintaining the Railways developed by both the British and the French empires.
It has daily trains connecting the city with Chennai, villuppuram and Tirupathi apart from non-daily trains towards prime cities including Mangaluru, kanyakumari, Bengaluru, Kolkata, New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar and Mumbai via Villupuram.

Howrah railway station (also known as Howrah Junction) is a railway station located in the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. It is the largest and busiest railway complex in India, as well as one of the busiest and largest train stations in the world. It is also the oldest surviving railway complex in India. Howrah is one of the five large intercity railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area, the others being Sealdah, Santragachi, Shalimar and Kolkata railway station.
The first public train from the station was on 15 August 1854, on what is now the Howrah – Hooghly Main Line. At present, about 600 passenger trains pass through the station, serving more than 1 million passengers a day. Utilising its 22 operational platforms, the station handles a total of 252 Mail/Express trains and 500 suburban EMU trains daily; ten of the platforms are long enough to cater to trains with more than 24 coaches. Goods and parcel trains also originate and terminate here. The Howrah–Barddhaman main line is the busiest line that connects this station.
Howrah station has an underground station, which in turn, is a part of Green Line of the Kolkata Metro serves the area. It is the deepest station of the Kolkata Metro and also the deepest in the country. To the east, the station connects to Mahakaran station in Kolkata through India's second (after Cooum River, Chennai) under-river metro tunnel beneath the Hooghly river; whilst to the west the adjacent station is Howrah Maidan. The station was opened to the public on 15th March 2024.