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Varanasi Mahamana Express

tri-weekly superfast train between New Delhi and Varanasi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ40889196 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 22417 / 22418 Varanasi Mahamana Express is a tri-weekly Mahamana Express class train operated by Indian Railways, which runs between the cities of New Delhi & Varanasi via Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Bareilly, Lucknow, Sultanpur & Jaunpur city.

History

This was the first Mahamana Express train of Indian Railways.

The train was flagged off by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India on 22 January 2016 from Varanasi Junction through video conferencing.

It is currently owned & operated by Northern Railway Zone of Indian Railways organization.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Varanasi Mahamana Express” is tri-weekly superfast train between New Delhi and Varanasi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Varanasi, Mahamana and Express, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Varanasi, Mahamana and Express is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Varanasi Mahamana Express” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.