The 15955 / 15956 Brahmaputra Mail is a daily train that connects Old Delhi with Dibrugarh (an important town in upper Assam). Introduced in 1972 after the construction of the rail section of the Farakka Barrage, the train originally ran as the Tinsukia Mail between Delhi Junction railway station and New Bongaigaon railway stations, with onward meter gauge connection by a train of the same name numbered as 7Up and 8Dn to Guwahati and Tinsukia in the Indian state of Assam. The train was renamed the Brahmaputra Mail after the successful gauge conversion of the New Bongaigaon- Dibrugarh meter gauge lines to broad gauge. W.E.F. 20/12/2020 this train will run between Template:Stnlnk (KYQ) & Old Delhi (DLI) & to be permanently cancelled between Template:Stnlnk (KYQ) & Dibrugarh (DBRG)
Services
Originally ran as 155 dn by 156 up it was originally started by Northeast Frontier Railway which is called NFR in short. Later on, the primary maintenance was transferred to the Delhi Division of the Northern Railway and ran under the numbers 14056up by 14055 dn. The train recently got LHB rake and the primary maintenance went back to NFR with Dibrugarh being the maintenance station. Once the pride of NFR with neon lights in its first class compartments and has eight cushioned sleeper class coaches in the 1970s, the train went to a sharp decline both in priority and facilities with conditioning of its rake worsening. However, with the new LHB rake trying to get its lost glory back. The up train belongs to Northeast Frontier Railway Zone. Northeast Frontier Railways decided it will be running as 15955/15956 Brahmaputra Mail from 9 December 2019.[1]
Schedule
- 15955 departs Dibrugarh every day at 23:25 and arrives at Delhi Junction at 6:05 on the fourth day from departure (e.g.:the train which departs Dibrugarh on Thursday at 23:25 would arrive at Delhi on Sunday at 6:05) covering a distance of Template:Convert in 54 hrs and 40 mins with an average moving speed of Template:Convert
- 15956 departs Old Delhi every day at 23:40 and reaches Dibrugarh at 4:25 on the fourth day (e.g.: the train departing DLI at 23:40 on Thursday would reach DBRT on Sunday early morning at 4:25) covering a total distance of Template:Convert in 52 hrs and 45 mins with an average moving speed of Template:Convert[2] But W.E.F. 20/12/2020, this train will run between Template:Stnlnk (KYQ) & Old Delhi (DLI) covering Template:Convert in 38 hrs 00 mins on the 3rd day as 15955 (e.g.: the train departing KYQ at 14.35 hrs on Thursday would reach DLI on Saturday early morning at 04:35 hrs) with an average moving speed of Template:Convert. In return the train will run between Old Delhi (DLI) & Template:Stnlnk (KYQ) covering Template:Convert in 38 hrs 00 mins on the 3rd day as 15956 (e.g.: the train departing DLI at 23:40 hrs on Thursday would reach KYQ on Saturday afternoon at 13.40 hrs) with an average moving speed of Template:Convert
Coach composition
The train has both AC and Non AC class of accommodation. The composition of this train is
| LOCO | EOG | RMS | UR | A1 | B4 | B3 | B2 | B1 | PC | S11 | S10 | S9 | S8 | S7 | S6 | S5 | S4 | S3 | S2 | S1 | UR | EOG |
1st General coach runs as locked (for RMS use) .
Locomotive
The train is hauled by a Ghaziabad based WAP 5 / WAP 7 locomotive from Template:Rws to Template:Rws. From Template:Rws to Template:Rws the train is usually hauled by a Siliguri based WDP 4 / WDP 4B / WDP 4D locomotive and vice versa.
After full electrification, this train will run end to end from Template:Rws to Template:Rws hauled by a Ghaziabad based WAP 5 / WAP 7 locomotive.
Route & Halts
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Trivia
- This is one of the oldest running trains of this zone. This train is known for its amount of defense personnel using this train.
- This train was also involved in two major railway disasters in Indian History. One was the bombing of the train between Kokrajhar and New Bongaigaon in December 1996 by Bodo Militants and second was the Gaisal Rail Disaster, a head-on collision between Avadh Assam Express and Brahmaputra Mail.
References
Template:Historical trains in India Template:Railways in Northern India Template:Railway lines in Eastern India