GOC WDM3A ALCO Twins 16346 Trivandrum Central - Mumbai LTT Netravati Express : Konkan Railways

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GOC WDM3A ALCO TWINS WITH 16346 TRIVANDRUM CENTRAL - MUMBAI LTT NETRAVATI EXPRESS ARRIVING KUDAL STATION OUTER OF KONKAN RAILWAYS.
16346/Netravati Express
നേത്രാവതി എക്സ്പ്രസ്സ്‌     नेत्रावती एक्सप्रेस
TVC/Thiruvananthapuram Central (Trivandrum) -- LTT/Lokmanya Tilak Terminus
The Netravati Express is a daily express train running between Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai. The train runs through Konkan railway.
Initially the train was plied between Mumbai to Mangalore/Kochi as Link via the inland Pune, Gulbarga, Krishnarajapuram, Palakkad route parting at Shornur Junction. Trains on the old route used to take 48 hours to reach Mangalore from Mumbai. After the Konkan Railway line was operational in 1998,the route has been changed via the Konkan Railway and the Mangalore-Mumbai running time was reduced drastically to 16 hours. The link express was made a single train till Kochi[1] and further extended till Thiruvananthapuram (which is the capital city of Kerala) from 10 February 2001.[2]
Mangalore city is situated at the banks of the Netravati River. Since this trains terminating point was Mangalore back then, the name of the train was set as Netravati Express.
A WDP-4D, belonging to Golden Rock, hauls the train from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Shoranur after which an Erode based WAP-4 hauls the train for the remainder of its journey.
Kudal railway station is a train station near the town of Kudal in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kudal station lies on the Konkan Railway zone of Indian Railways that runs along the west coast of India. Kudal is an important station in the Konkan region with several trains stopping here daily.

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