Barabanki–Lucknow Suburban Railway

Barabanki–Lucknow Suburban Railway is a commuter rail service operated by Northern Railways, North Central Railway and North Eastern Railway to connect Lucknow with Barabanki. These services are mostly run using EMU and MEMU rakes. However it does not have dedicated suburban tracks but share the tracks with long distance trains. Locally it is called BL meaning Barabanki Lucknow (while LC means Lucknow Cawnpore).

View of Barabanki-Lucknow MEMU train at Barabanki Jn railway station's platform no. 2.

Distance and time
  • Distance between Lucknow (LKO) and Barabanki Jn (BBK) is 28–29 km (NR route).
  • Distance between Lucknow Jn (LJN) and Barabanki Jn (BBK) is 36–37 km (NER route).
  • Most of the LSB trains cover the whole journey within 50 minutes via NR route (28–29 km) (NR route).
  • Most of the LGB trains cover the whole journey within 1 hour 30 minutes via NER route (36–37 km) (NER route).
  • Intercity and other Superfast trains take 40 minutes to 1 hour 10 minutes. (Amrapali Express takes exactly 40 minutes for whole journey while Ganga Sutlej Express takes exactly 1 hour 10 minutes.)

MEMU/EMU and passenger trains

NR route
Stations Distance from source Event 64231
Barabanki Jn 0 km departure 10:10
Safedabad 7 km departure 10:21
Jugaur 11 km departure 10:28
Malhour 16 km departure 10:35
Lucknow 28 km Arrival 11:00

NER route
Stations Distance from source Event 64271
Barabanki Jn 0 km departure 13:10
Safedabad 7 km departure 13:21
Jugaur 11 km departure 13:27
Malhour 17 km departure 13:37
Gomati Nagar 21 km departure 13:43
Badshahnagar 25 km departure 13:50
Daliganj 29 km departure 17:40
Lucknow City 31 km departure 13:58
Aishbagh 34 km departure 14:04
Lucknow Jn 36 km Arrival 14:45

NR route
Stations Event 2LSB 4LSB
Lucknow departure 11:05 13:40
Malhour departure 11:26 14:03
Jugaur departure 11:33 14:12
Safedabad departure 11:39 14:20
Barabanki Jn Arrival 11:38 14:35

NER route
Stations Event 64274
Lucknow Jn departure 18:15
Aishbagh departure 18:26
Lucknow City departure 18:40
Daliganj departure 18:46
Badshahnagar departure 19:07
Gomati Nagar departure 19:15
Malhour departure 19:24
Jugaur departure 19:30
Safedabad departure 19:36
Barabanki Jn Arrival 19:45

See also

References
    • "Kanpur gets Memu train to Barabanki". The Times of India. 30 June 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

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