Samjhauta Express

Samjhauta Express

Pakistan Railways rake of the Samjhauta Express
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Locale	India Pakistan
First service	22 July 1976; 47 years ago (1976-07-22)
Last service	8 August 2019; 4 years ago (2019-08-08)
Current operator(s)	Indian Railways's Northern Railway Zone Pakistan Railways
Route
Termini	Delhi Junction Lahore Junction
Stops	Atari Shyam Singh Wagah
Distance travelled	502 kilometres (312 mi)
Average journey time	11 hours, 42 minutes
Service frequency	Bi-weekly
Technical
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Route map Legend km to Delhi–Moradabad line 0 Old Delhi More Info : Delhi–Kalka line More Info : Ambala–Attari line 447 Amritsar Junction 472 Atari Shyam Singh India–Pakistan border 475 Wagah More Info:Lahore–Wagah Branch Line 502 Lahore Junction to Karachi–Peshawar Line

The Samjhauta Express (transl. Compromise Express) was a twice-weekly train, Thursday and Monday, that ran between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in Pakistan.^[1] The word Samjhauta means "agreement", "accord" and "compromise" in Hindi–Urdu language.

Until the reopening of the Thar Express, this was the only rail connection between the two countries. The train was started on 22 July 1976 following the Simla Agreement and ran between Amritsar and Lahore, a distance of about 50.2 km.^[2] Following disturbances in Punjab in the late 1980s, due to security reasons Indian Railways decided to terminate the service at Attari, where customs and immigration clearances take place. On 14 April 2000, in an agreement between Indian Railways and Pakistan Railways (PR), the distance was revised to cover just under three km.