Departures · प्रस्थान

The night train leaves at 22:40.

One overnight journey out of Bhopal Junction, told with the railway's own things: the board, the platform, the window after midnight, the timetable and a ticket to keep.

22:40 · IST
Bhopal Jn
प्रस्थान Departures
  1. 22:40 · 2240 · New Delhi · Platform 1 · On time
  2. 23:05 · 1105 · Mumbai · Platform 3 · On time
  3. 23:20 · 3318 · Jabalpur · Platform 4 · Boarding
  4. 23:45 · 2207 · Indore · Platform 2 · Delayed
  5. 00:10 · 0458 · Howrah · Platform 5 · On time

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Platform 1

Platform 1 · प्लेटफ़ॉर्म 1

The 22:40 is coming in.

Bhopal Junction at night, its green BHOPAL Jn. sign lit over the entrance, people walking in with bags

GS01 / 05

Bhopal Junction, 22:10.

Autos idling at the gate, a queue at the enquiry window and a green sign you can read from the main road. Everyone checks the board twice, then once more.

A vendor's cart of snacks and drinks on bicycle wheels beside a blue sleeper class coach

S202 / 05

The cart knows the timetable.

Chai, samosa, cold water and a packet of biscuits, all on two bicycle wheels. The man pushing it knows exactly how long the train will stand, and he is never wrong.

A window berth inside a three-tier coach, light coming through the barred window

S403 / 05

Side lower, berth 31.

The best seat on the train: a window of your own, two steel bars to rest an arm on, and the whole of Madhya Pradesh going past in the dark.

Cooks in a narrow railway kitchen coach plating buns and meals on a steel counter

PC04 / 05

A kitchen as wide as a corridor.

Order at 22:50, eat at 23:20, sleep before Bina. Dinner comes on a steel tray, and somehow the dal is still hot three coaches down.

A red coach standing at a dim platform at night, passengers waiting under the canopy

SLR05 / 05

Green lamp. Long horn.

The guard leans out with a green lamp, the engine answers, and the platform starts to slide away. Find your berth. We leave on time.

Coach S4 · Berth 31

After midnight,
the window talks.

Now passing

Bhopal Jn

22:400 kmNight

Timetable · समय सारणी

Every stop,
to the minute.

Printed small, read twice. The ones in bold are the long halts: time to step down, stretch and buy a chai through the window.

2240 Night MailBhopal Jn → New Delhi · Daily · Sleeper and AC

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Timetable of the 22:40 Night Mail from Bhopal Junction to New Delhi
No.StationArr.Dep.HaltKmDay

Times are local (IST). Halts in minutes. A study page: not a real service, not live data.