Mumbai–Howrah extras

Central Railway is adding just two extra runs on one of India’s heaviest east-west corridors, which tells you how tightly packed April travel already is: one train leaves Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai on April 14, 2026, and the return leaves Howrah on April 16, 2026. (indianexpress.com) The outbound service is train 01145, scheduled to leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 8:15 pm on Tuesday, April 14, and the return is train 01146, scheduled to leave Howrah at 6:00 am on Thursday, April 16. (thelivenagpur.com) This is not the old Mumbai terminus most outsiders think of when they hear “Mumbai train.” Lokmanya Tilak Terminus is the long-distance terminal in Kurla that Central Railway often uses to launch relief services without choking the city’s older stations. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) The route goes through Nagpur, which sits near the middle of the country, so this is not only a Mumbai-to-Kolkata train. It is also extra capacity for passengers boarding across Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh on a line that picks up summer demand town by town. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) The published stoppages show exactly who this train is meant to help: Thane, Kalyan, Igatpuri, Nashik Road, Bhusaval, Akola, Badnera, Wardha, Nagpur, Gondia, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Chakradharpur, Tatanagar, Kharagpur, and Howrah. (thelivenagpur.com) Central Railway said bookings open on Sunday, April 12, 2026, at computerized reservation centers nationwide and on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation website, while unreserved tickets will be available through the Unreserved Ticketing System. (indianexpress.com) The train is being sent out with 20 Linke Hofmann Busch coaches, which are the newer stainless-steel coaches Indian Railways uses for higher-speed long-distance services. In plain terms, this is not a bare-bones rake pulled together at the last minute. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Those 20 coaches are split across air-conditioned two-tier, air-conditioned three-tier, sleeper class, and general second-class accommodation, so the railway is trying to absorb both reserved holiday traffic and last-minute budget travel in the same pair of runs. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) The timing shows how Indian Railways uses “special” trains in peak season: not as a brand-new daily service, but as a pressure-release valve dropped onto a crowded corridor for specific dates when schools close, offices thin out, and migrant and family travel spikes at once. (indianexpress.com) So the headline is small, but the signal is clear. When Central Railway adds a one-off Mumbai–Howrah pair in mid-April and opens bookings immediately on April 12, it is saying the regular timetable was not enough for this week’s rush. (indianexpress.com)