The 13007 / 13008 Udyan Abha Toofan Express was an Express train belonging to Indian Railways â Eastern Railway zone that used to run between and Sri Ganganagar in India.
It operated as train number 13007 from Howrah to Sri Ganganagar and as train number 13008 in the reverse direction, serving the 8 states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan. Eastern Railway cancelled its operations permanently from 19 May 2020 with 16 other pairs of trains such as the Sealdah-Rampurhat Intercity Express, Barddhaman-Rampurhat Express, Sealdah-Anand Vihar Terminal Express, Sealdah-Varanasi Express, Howrah-Anand Vihar Yuva Express, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri AC Express, Sealdah-Sitamarhi Express, Kolkata-Patna Express, Howrah-Amritsar Express, and 7 other passenger trains.
13007 U ABHA TOOFAN Express operated from Howrah to Shri Ganganagar passing through 110 station as per the timetable (last) below:
13008 U ABHA TOOFAN Express operated from Shri Ganganagar to Howrah passing through 105 station as per the timetable (last) below:
13008 also split at Bhatinda Junction towards Kalka passing through 11 stations listed below:
13007 had two reserved classes: Sleeper (S1 to S6) and 3AC (B1 to B2). It also had five unreserved (general) coaches, two general cum luggage coaches and one handicapped coach. In 13008, one Sleeper coach and one 3AC coach were split at Bhatinda Junction towards Kalka while an additional Sleeper coach (S8) was added.
The 13007 HowrahâÂÂSri Ganganagar Udyan Abha Toofan Express covered the distance of 1978 kilometres in 45 hours 25 mins (43.55 km/h) and in 46 hours 20 mins as 13008 Sri GanganagarâÂÂHowrah Udyan Abha Toofan Express (42.69 km/h).
The 13007 / 13008 Howrah âÂÂSri Ganganagar Udyan Abha Toofan Express ran from Howrah Junction via , , , , , , , , , , , Rohtak Junction, Bhatinda Junction to Sri Ganganagar.
It reversed direction of travel at .
As the route is partly electrified, a Howrah-based WAP-4 hauled the train from Howrah Junction up to handing over to a Ludhiana-based WDM-3A which powered the train for the remainder of the journey.