12659 Nagercoil Junction - Shalimar Gurudev Superfast Express Time Table

Its longest run without a stop is 151 km and 2h 45m from Samalkot Jn (SLO) to Visakhapatnam (VSKP). The next longest is 124 km and 2h 08m from Salem Jn (SA) to Jolarpettai Jn (JTJ).

At 22:00 it is between Aluva (AWY) and Thrisur (TCR), and at 06:00 on day 2 of the run it is standing at Jolarpettai Jn (JTJ).

16 of its 42 intermediate stops are booked for five minutes or more, the longest of them 20 minutes at Visakhapatnam (VSKP), 10 minutes at Vijayawada Jn (BZA), 10 minutes at Khurda Road Jn (KUR), 5 minutes at Thiruvananthapuram Central (TVC), 5 minutes at Kottayam (KTYM). The briefest stop is 1 minute at Varkala (VAK).

The run crosses midnight before Coimbatore Jn (CBE); every later time carries a day marker.

It passes its own halfway mark of 1291 km at Tenali Jn (TEL), stop number 25 of 44, and is booked to stand at its stops for 158 minutes in all, 6% of the 45h 45m journey.

Its quickest booked leg is Palasa (PSA) to Brahmapur (BAM), 74 km at an average of 89 km/h.

After Nagercoil Junction it calls first at Thiruvananthapuram Central (TVC), Varkala (VAK), Kollam Jn (QLN), Kayankulam Jn (KYJ) and Chengannur (CNGR).

Its last stops before Shalimar are Jajpur K Road (JJKR), Bhadrakh (BHC), Balasore (BLS), Kharagpur Jn (KGP) and Santragachi Jn (SRC).

Its stops are not evenly spread: 23 of the 42 fall in the first half of the distance and 19 in the second.

The busiest stations on its route are Vijayawada Jn (BZA), where 480 trains call, Kharagpur Jn (KGP), where 337 trains call, Bhubaneswar (BBS), where 312 trains call.

At BZA it is booked in at 15:15 and away again at 15:25, 1353 km into the run.

How these are counted.

From 12659’s halt rows, not its name. Trains without a page here are left out.

• 15607 Thiruvananthapuram Central - Silchar Aronai Express — TVC to SCL, 31 stations in common with 12659
• 22503 Kanniyakumari - Dibrugarh Vivek Express — CAPE to DBRG, 31 stations in common with 12659
• 22641 Thiruvananthapuram Central - Shalimar Superfast Express — TVC to SHM, 29 stations in common with 12659
• 12864 SMVT Bengaluru Howrah Express — SMVB to HWH, 27 stations in common with 12659

12659 is booked out of Nagercoil Junction at 14:45, which puts it under rule RB-16.12.2025-B: its first reservation chart is expected at about 04:45 on the day of the journey. How we work this out.

Check live seat availability for 12659 — Nagercoil Junction to Shalimar, fetched when you ask and never stored here (how).

Every time and distance above is read from timetable version 2026-08-30, and from nothing else. Where the timetable data comes from.

The 04:45 above comes from a published railway order, worked out, never observed.