20497 Rameswaram - Firozpur Cantt Superfast Humsafar Time Table

Its longest run without a stop is 254 km and 3h 45m from Nellore (NLR) to Vijayawada Jn (BZA). The next longest is 246 km and 4h 10m from Warangal (WL) to Balharshah (BPQ).

At 22:00 on day 2 of the run it is between Warangal (WL) and Balharshah (BPQ), and at 06:00 on day 2 of the run it is between Villupuram Jn (VM) and Chengalpattu Jn (CGL).

19 of its 41 intermediate stops are booked for five minutes or more, the longest of them 20 minutes at Churu (CUR), 15 minutes at Chennai Egmore (MS), 15 minutes at Lakshmibai NGR (LMNR), 15 minutes at Jaipur Jn (JP), 10 minutes at Tiruchchirappalli Jn (TPJ). The briefest stop is 1 minute at Ariyalur (ALU).

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

It passes its own halfway mark of 1770 km at Betul (BZU), stop number 17 of 43, and is booked to stand at its stops for 210 minutes in all, 6% of the 63h 05m journey.

Its quickest booked leg is Ramanathapuram (RMD) to Manamadurai Jn (MNM), 59 km at an average of 93 km/h.

After Rameswaram it calls first at Ramanathapuram (RMD), Manamadurai Jn (MNM), Pudukkottai (PDKT), Tiruchchirappalli Jn (TPJ) and Ariyalur (ALU).

Its last stops before Firozpur Cantt are Ellenabad (ENB), Hanumangarh Jn (HMH), Sangaria (SGRA), Mandi Dabwali (MBY) and Bathinda (BTI).

Its stops are not evenly spread: 15 of the 41 fall in the first half of the distance and 26 in the second.

The busiest stations on its route are Chennai Egmore (MS), where 495 trains call, Vijayawada Jn (BZA), where 480 trains call, Itarsi Jn (ET), where 417 trains call.

At MS it is booked in at 08:25 and away again at 08:40, 603 km into the run.

How these are counted.

From 20497’s halt rows, not its name. Trains without a page here are left out.

• 22631 Madurai Jn - Bikaner Jn Anuvrat Superfast Express — MDU to BKN, 15 stations in common with 20497
• 22673 Jodhpur Jn - Mannargudi Superfast Express — JU to MQ, 13 stations in common with 20497
• 14724 Tirupati - Hisar Express — TPTY to HSR, 12 stations in common with 20497
• 12642 Hazrat Nizamuddin Jn - Kanniyakumari Tirukkural Express — NZM to CAPE, 11 stations in common with 20497

20497 is booked out of Rameswaram at 22:50, which puts it under rule RB-16.12.2025-B: its first reservation chart is expected at about 12:50 on the day of the journey. How we work this out.

Check live seat availability for 20497 — Rameswaram to Firozpur Cantt, 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 12:50 above comes from a published railway order, worked out, never observed.