Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway

Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Uttar Pradesh
Termini	Lucknow Charbagh Kanpur Central
Operation
Opened	1867
Owner	Indian Railway
Operator(s)	Northern Railway North Central Railway North Eastern Railway
Technical
Line length	72 km (45 mi)
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Broad Gauge
Electrification	25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary

Lucknow–Kanpur Suburban Railway System is a commuter rail service operated by Northern Railways, North Central Railway and North Eastern Railway to connect administrative capital Lucknow with the economic and industrial capital Kanpur of the state Uttar Pradesh. These services are mostly run using EMU and MEMU rakes. However it does not have dedicated suburban tracks but share the tracks with long distance trains. It is fondly called LC meaning Lucknow Cawnpore (old name of Kanpur).

NOTE

The Northern Railway has planned to roll out its bullet trains or Shinkansen (as trains are called in Japanese parlance) on Lucknow-Kanpur route.

This government focuses on connecting Lucknow and Kanpur with a high-speed metro rail network and develop an industrial corridor between the two cities.

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