Mumbai-Pune Deccan Queen Train To Now Run With Dining Car LHB Coaches

Railways have decided to replace all the Conventional coaches of Train no 12123/12124 CSMT-Pune-CSMT Deccan Queen Express with LHB coaches.

The train with revised composition of LHB coaches will now run ex CSMT with effect from June 22, 2022 and ex Pune with effect from June 23, 2022.

Revised composition: Four AC Chair Car, 8 Second Class Chair Car, One Vista dome coach, One AC Dining Car, Guard cum brake van and Generator Car.

Passengers are requested to follow all norms mandated for COVID-19.

Earlier, five months ago, the railway officials had stated that the new and upgraded coach of the 17-car was ready at the Integral Coach Factory in the Chennai manufacturing unit. The coach is a second class coach which is at par with LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) coaches.

There was a delay in this development as the finalisation of the designs to upgrade the dining car was approved in February 2021. In the dining car, there will be 10-dining tables and four chairs around each of the windows. The dining car will be of 40 seaters, as per the finalised design.

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This is the first LHB-class dining car of Indian Railways. It has more riding comfort with a speed of 160 km per hour that could go up to 200 km per hour.

The Vista Dome coaches on Mumbai-Pune route, which resumed its services in June 2021, have been receiving an overwhelming response from passengers.

Besides, nearly after two years, the Central Railways (CR) will again resume the seasonal pass and unreserved passenger service for Deccan Queen Express, Intercity Express, Indrayani Express trains, Deccan Express and Sinhagad Express on the Pune-Mumbai route from March 22.