Lucknow Mail

Lucknow Mail
लखनऊ मेल
	LHB Lucknow Mail behind WAP7 Locomotive
Overview
Service type	Mail
Status	Operating
Locale	Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
Current operator(s)	Northern Railways
Route
Start	Lucknow Junction (LJN), Lucknow
Stops	7
End	New Delhi Railway Station (NDLS), New Delhi
Distance travelled	492 km
Average journey time	NDLS TO LKO - 8 hrs 40 mins & LKO TO NDLS - 9 hrs
Train number(s)	12230 down / 12229 up
On-board services
Class(es)	Sleeper, General, First AC, Second AC, Third AC
Seating arrangements	Available
Sleeping arrangements	Available
Technical
Operating speed	64 km/hour down, 70 km/hour up

Lucknow Mail (Lucknow - New Delhi) route map

The Lucknow Mail is an Indian Railways train running between Lucknow and New Delhi on a daily basis. It is numbered 12229 when starting from Lucknow and terminating at New Delhi, 12230 between New Delhi and Lucknow. It has received an ISO 9000 certification after Bhopal Express. Lucknow Mail is the first LHB train of Indian Railways running with 24 coaches (22 coaches+2 EOG) on permanent basis. Lucknow Mail also has the maximum number of AC coaches for a non fully-AC train (11 AC Coaches) in India.

Lucknow Mail along with Shram Shakti Express, Prayagraj Express, Shiv Ganga Express enjoys highest priority all over the route

Lucknow Mail Destination Board

From the Past[]

Lucknow Mail originally had 29 Up and 30 Down numbers before rationalisation of number schemes. With the new rationalisation scheme the train was assigned with service numbers 4229 from Lucknow and 4230 from New Delhi. In the 2005-06 railway Budget, it was elevated to superfast category without withdrawing any previous intermediate stops. During the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as Railway Minister a new five digit numbering scheme was introduced and present numbers 12229 and 12230 were assigned to Lucknow Mail.

Journey[]

The down train (#12230) departs New Delhi at 22:05 usually from Platform 16 and reaches Lucknow at 06:45 the following morning. The up train (#12229) departs Lucknow at 22:00 usually from Platform 1 and reaches New Delhi at 06:45 the following morning. The train boarding station was changed on 15/11/2018 from Lucknow Charbagh to Lucknow junction.^[1] The Time table is as follows:

12229 Lucknow Junction railway station to New Delhi

Station Code	Station Name
LJN	Lucknow Junction
HRI	Hardoi
SPN	Shahjahanpur
BE	Bareilly
RMU	Rampur Junction
MB	Moradabad
HPU	Hapur Junction
GZB	Ghaziabad Junction
NDLS	New Delhi

12230 New Delhi to Lucknow Junction railway station

LHB AC Coach of Lucknow Mail

Coaches[]

Coach Composition are as follows-

12229 LKO NDLS Loco-EOG-GEN-GEN-S1-S2-S3-S4-S5-S6-S7-S8-M1-M2-B1-B2-B3-B4-A1-A2-A3-A4-HA1-H1-EOG

12230 NDLS LKO Loco-EOG-H1-HA1-A4-A3-A2-A1-B4-B3-B2-B1-M2-M1-S8-S7-S6-S5-S4-S3-S2-S1-GEN-GEN-EOG

Loco in-charge for this train is WAP-7,WAP-4, WAP 5 from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh (GZB) shed.

References[]

^ "Train timings". Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.

[about_train-1] "Train timings". Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.

[1]

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See also	Indian Railways Bholu (mascot) 1974 railway strike in India Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor

Lucknow Mail

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From the Past[]

Journey[]

Coaches[]

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