Bangalore City–Nagercoil Express

The 17235/17236 SVMT Bengaluru–Nagercoil Express, formerly known as KSR Bengaluru–Nagercoil Express/Bangalore City–Nagercoil Express/Bengaluru City–Nagercoil Express is an Express train belonging to South Coast Railway Zone of the Indian Railways that runs between SVMT Bengaluru in Karnataka and Nagercoil Junction in Tamil Nadu. It is being operated with trains nos. 17235/17236 train numbers on a daily basis. It was initially launched from KSR Bengaluru on 8 February 2014, but from 2 October 2022 it started to run from the newly built SVMT Bengaluru. It is one of the most important daily train connecting Karnataka's capital city to the southernmost districts of Tamil Nadu through the shortest and the most direct route. It is busy throughout the year.

Service

 * 17235/SVMT Bengaluru–Nagercoil Express has an average speed of 46 km/h and covers 670 km in 14h 25m.
 * 17236/Nagercoil–SVMT Bengaluru Express has an average speed of 48 km/h and covers 670 km in 14h.

CoVID-19 era Special Festival Express
Passenger train services on Indian Railways stopped temporarily on 22 March 2020 due to CoVID-19 lockdown. Later, when train services where revived, clone/sister trains were introduced with a different number on the same route in a phased manner. In the same way, train no. 07235 KSR Bengaluru-Nagercoil Festival Special and 07236 Nagercoil–KSR Bengaluru Festival Special launched on 31 January 2021 as clone trains for train nos. 17235/17236. This practice was stopped in November 2021 in a phased manner and restored to the pre-pandemic train numbering and fare system.

Route and schedule
The schedule of this 17235/17236 SMVT Bengaluru - Nagercoil Express is given below:-

Coach composition

 * 17235 SVMT Bengaluru – Nagercoil Express
 * 17236 Nagercoil – SMVT Bengaluru Express