Flying Ranee

The 12921/12922 Flying Ranee is a superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Mumbai Central (MMCT) and Surat (ST) in India. It is a daily service. It operates as train number 12922 from Surat to Mumbai Central and as train number 12921 in the reverse direction.

Coaches
Flying Ranee presently has 2 AC Chair Cars, 3 General Second class coaches, 1 First Class & 12 Double Decker non-AC coaches. This train would earlier carry a pantry car but this has been removed and replaced with a Second Chair Car coach.

Service and History
Flying Ranee is a classic train that started in India in its Pre-Independence phase. This train started operating in the year 1906. But on 24 April 1914, it was discontinued. The Flying Ranee was restarted on 1 May 1937 as a weekend special. It ran between 1937 and 1939, when it was discontinued due to World War II. Since then, it had been discontinued and restarted several times. It finally resumed operations on 1 November 1950 and has been running ever since. On 18 December 1979, double-decker cars were added to the Flying Ranee's rake. Presently it is a daily service.

It covers the distance of 263 kilometres in 4 hours 40 minutes as 12922 Flying Ranee (56.35 km/h) and 4 hours 40 minutes as 12921 Flying Ranee (55.37 km/h).

Traction
Dual-traction WCAM-1 locomotive usually hauls the train between Mumbai and Surat. Western Railways completed DC to AC Electric Conversion on 5 February 2012.

It is now regularly hauled by a Vadodara-based WAP-7 or WAP-5 or WAP-4E locomotive.

Time table
12922 Flying Ranee leaves Surat at 05:05 AM IST every day and reaches Mumbai Central at 09:45 AM IST the same day.

12921 Flying Ranee leaves Mumbai Central at 17:55 PM IST every day and reaches Surat at 22:35 PM IST the same day.

Route and halts
The important halts of the train are:


 * Mumbai Central
 * Andheri
 * Borivali
 * Palghar
 * Dahanu Road
 * Vapi
 * Udvada
 * Valsad
 * Bilimora Junction
 * Amalsad
 * Navsari
 * Maroli
 * Sachin
 * Udhna Junction
 * Surat

Gallery
As per new timetable eefective December 2021 Flying Ranee will be given a halt at Udvada station both ways.