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17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express
वास्को-द-गामा - वेलांकन्नि साप्ताहिक एक्सप्रेस

UBL/SSS Hubballi Junction (Hubli) --> VLNK/Velankanni

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South Western Railway has decided to convert one rake of Train nos. 17315/17316 Vasco Da Gama - Velankanni - Vasco Da Gama Weekly Express from conventional to LHB rakes w.e.f. March 4, 2024 departing from Vasco Da Gama and March 5, 2024 departing from Velankanni. . Revised composition of the LHB...
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rake for the 20 coaches are as follows; 1 AC 2 Tier, 3 AC 3 Tier, 3 AC 3 Tier Economy, 8 Sleeper class, 3 General second class, 2 Luggage cum break-vans with generator car.
Fri Mar 01, 2024 (10:14AM)
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🔹Train No. 17315 Vasco da Gama – Velankanni Express commencing journey from Vasco da Gama o­n July 31, 2023 is cancelled.
Sun Jul 30, 2023 (05:07AM)
🔹 Train No. 17315 Vasco-Da-Gama – Velankanni Weekly Express, starting from Vasco-Da-Gama o­n March 27, 2023 will be diverted to run via SSS Hubballi, Hosapete bypass, Kotturu, Amaravathi Colony & Davangere, skipping stoppages at Haveri, Ranibennur & Harihar stations.
Wed Mar 22, 2023 (10:33AM)
🔹Train No. 17315 Vasco-Da-Gama – Velankanni Weekly Express starting from Vasco-Da-Gama o­n March 13, 2023 will be regulated for 30 minutes en route
Fri Mar 10, 2023 (06:39PM)
🔹Train No. 17315 Vasco Da Gama – Velankanni Weekly Express will be cancelled o­n 09.01.2023 & 16.01.2023. 🔹Train No 17315 Vasco-da-Gama-Velankanni weekly express will be cancelled on December 12 and 19.
Tue Dec 20, 2022 (08:13PM)
🔹Train No 17315 Vasco-da-Gama-Velankanni weekly express will be cancelled on December 12 and 19.
Fri Dec 09, 2022 (09:33PM)
Train No. 17315/17316 Vasco-Da-Gama - Nagappattinam – Vasco-Da-Gama Weekly Express will be augmented temporarily with Two AC-3 tier coach with effect from 23.05.2022 to 27.06.2022 from Vasco-Da-Gama and with effect from 25.05.2022 to 29.06.2022 from Nagappattinam.
Mon May 23, 2022 (07:22PM)
Will be augmented with 2 extra 3AC coaches. Ex VSG from 23.05.2022 till 27.06.2022, Ex VLNK/NGT from 24.05.2022 till 28.06.2022
Wed May 18, 2022 (09:29AM)
Kindly note; As notified by Southern Railway, Train No. 17315/17316 Vasco Da Gama- Velankanni - Vasco Da Gama Weekly Express of 07.03.2022 and 09.03.2022 will run up to Nagapattinam Junction instead of Velankanni as T.No. 17315/17316 Vasco Da Gama- Nagapattinam - Vasco Da Gama Express.
Wed Mar 02, 2022 (07:43PM)
Will be starting from 07/03/2022 from VSG ICF rake CC; ACCW – 01, ACCN – 04, GSCN – 7, GS – 04, SLR – 02 = 18 Coaches.
Sat Feb 26, 2022 (07:49PM)
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Wed Jan 05, 2022 (08:40PM)
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Inaugural Run
Mon Aug 29, 2011
Pantry/Catering
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➡️ Afternoon - Chicken/Veg Biryani, Veg Thali. Order is taken post...
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Kulem and food is served at Dharwad. Night - Chicken/Egg/Veg Curry Chapati, Veg/Chicken Dum Biryani, Order is taken at Davangere And food is offered at Arsikere. Quality if food is between average to good. Or if you want south Indian like Idli/Dosa/Sheera/Upma, as the train halts at Arsikere for 10 minutes and mostly as it comes before time, time will be sufficient for buying food from the caterers from Platform 1. Next Day morning, Vendors will be selling Idli-Vada/Dosa/Poori in between Karur and Tiruchchirapalli Jn. Or, The train arrives platform 1 at Tiruchirapalli Jn around 8 am and halts for more than 30 minutes, you can avail variety of breakfast at Neethus kitchen; ➡️ E-Catering is available at MAO, UBL, HVR, DVG & TPJ.
Updated: Apr 15 (21:53) by Siddharth98^~
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Rating: 4.0/5 (35 votes)
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ticket avbl - excellent (6)
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railfanning - excellent (6)
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B4 to B6 coaches are AC 3 Tier Economy coaches.
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Mar 04 (17:33)   17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express | DWR/Dharwad (4 PFs) | KJM/WDP-4D/40367
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First LHB Run of VASCO VELANKANNI EXPRESS | Indian railways

17315 / Vasco-da-gama - Velankanni Express
Locomotive - 40367 KJM WDP4D
Location - Near Dharwad
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KnightWarrior21
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Why old coaches are attached for this train ? Sad to see this.. No proper newly manufactured LHB Coaches.
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What old coaches sir ?
First EOG is 2022 made second EOG is 2023 made, all three GS coaches are 2024 made, seven SL coaches are 2024 made and last SL is 2019 made.
One AC 3 tier and all three economy AC coaches are 2022 made. One AC 3 tier in Humsafar livery is 2019 made and one AC 3 tier is 2013 made whereas the AC 2 tier is 2014 made.
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still consider 2022 made coaches as new ones. So out of 20 coaches 16 coaches are new 2022/23/24 made, 2 coaches are 2019 made which also are not so old to speak. Only one AC 3 tier and AC 2 tier are old in that sense.

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Nice one
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KnightWarrior21
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Yes. You're right. There are some 2024 mfd coaches attached. But other coaches are mfd in different years, which were already used by the other trains.
From this train's POV, they are old coaches. This is what I meant to say.
Many trains are getting newly mfd LHB Coaches during the conversion. But this train got old-new coaches. Atleast for the sake of inaugural run, they should have attached all the 2024 mfd coaches.
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SWR didn't get any new 3AC coaches since a year now. But consider the scenario till mid of February last year not even a single LHB passenger train touched VSG railway station. Now you see VSG yard is full of LHB coaches and now VSG YPR is the only remaining M/E train with ICF coaches maintained at Vasco coaching depot. That's a thing to be happy of. Also this is the first REGULAR LHB train for Velankanni railway station.
Out of 20 coaches this train has 11 brand new 23/24 made coaches. Secondly there are other LHB trains running with SWR too so some brand new coaches will go to those trains too it's pretty obvious. New coaches should be distributed
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evenly across trains why should only a single train have all brand new coaches ?

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Velankanni - Vasco-Da-Gama Weekly Express   Karur Jn  
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@KRR: Karur Jn &3 km/h Xing with train no #17316: Velankanni Vasco Da Gama Weekly Express 👍👍
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Mar 04 (20:23)   17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express | VSG/Vasco-da-Gama (3 PFs) | KJM/WDP-4D/40367
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First LHB run of train number 17315 Vasco Da Gama (VSG) Velankanni (VLNK) weekly Express captured at Vasco Da Gama railway station.

Unfortunately due to some issue my camera app got closed while capturing the last few coaches so couldn't capture the whole train 🥲🥺 sorry for that guys.
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Mar 04 (21:08)
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Chennai train will automatically get LHB rake coz of RSA with this one.
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Small TB pics.
After LHB conversion of this train now VSG YPR express is the only remaining ICF M/E train of VSG CDO.
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Mar 05 (00:38)
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Aaah !! Newness of LHB just hits different !!😭😍
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Also first REGULAR LHB train for Velankanni railway station.
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Mar 05 (01:02)
Shub_rail_102
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That's Amazing actually, considering not much trains originates or terminate at Velankanni !! Having a LHB train originate and terminate is like patting it on the back for just having it !!
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Mar 03 (20:15)   17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express | VSG/Vasco-da-Gama (3 PFs)
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First LHB chart prepared. 😍
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AC economy coaches marked as B4 to B6. So people booking tickets in 3AC may get seats in economy coaches.
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B1 to B3 are 3AC,
B4 to B6 are 3E.
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A2 should' be added 8 AC and 8 SL would be perfect combination. Inspite of Monday morning dep full occupancy. Have to see sectional occupancy.
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Mar 04 (05:34)
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The train is fully occupied from Goa itself and Hubli is given less quota so huge waiting list. They should increase frequency to Biweekly.
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Mar 04 (08:07)
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Most of the train gets filled at MAO itself. It is a pilgrimage train to velankanni shrine for goa.
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Mar 01 (09:47)   17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express | SVM/Sanvordem (Kudchade) (3 PFs)
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Empty rake of Train no. 17315/15 VSG VLNK weekly express parked at Sanvordem railway station.

Date of capture: 13/04/2023.
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