Pragati Express

The 12125 / 12126 Pragati Superfast Express is a daily intercity express train plying between Pune and Mumbai via Panvel. It is operated by the Central Railways, a zonal railway under the larger Indian Railways. Currently, it plies the distance of 187 km in 3 hours and 25 minutes.

Pragati Superfast Express

Overview
Service type	Intercity Express
Locale	Maharashtra
First service	27 December 1991; 33 years ago (1991-12-27)
Current operator(s)	Central Railway
Route
Termini	Mumbai CSMT Pune Junction
Stops	6
Distance travelled	187 km (116 mi)
Average journey time	3 hours 25 minutes
Service frequency	Daily
Train number(s)	12125 / 12126
On-board services
Class(es)	AC Chair Car, Second Class Seating, General Unreserved
Seating arrangements	Yes
Sleeping arrangements	No
Auto-rack arrangements	Overhead racks
Catering facilities	No pantry car
Observation facilities	Large windows
Baggage facilities	No
Other facilities	Below the seats
Technical
Rolling stock	LHB coach
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Operating speed	110 km/h (68 mph) maximum, 54 km/h (34 mph) average including halts.
Route map Legend Mumbai CSMT Dadar Thane Thane Viaduct (Thane Creek) Parsik Tunnel (1.6 Km) Panvel Chowk Tunnel (2.6 km) Karjat Junction Bhor Ghat begins Monkey Hill (technical halt towards Mumbai CST) Khandala Tunnel (2.3 Km) Bhor Ghat ends Khandala (technical halt towards Mumbai CST) Lonavala Shivajinagar (towards Pune Junction) Pune Junction

Coaches

Pragati Express is composed of 15 LHB Coaches, as follows:

• 1 AC Chair Car
• 1 AC Vistadome
• 6 Second Seating
• 1 Unreserved coach (Reserved for Monthly Season Ticket holders)
• 4 General Second Class
• 1 Unreserved Ladies, Divyangjan and Brake Van
• 1 Generator Luggage and Brake Van

Pragati Express service is run using a single LHB rake and is maintained after every round trip in Pune at the Ghorpadi coaching depot

Service

It was inaugurated on 27 December 1991 as an alternative to the most popular train on this sector the Deccan Queen. It is one of the six point-to-point express trains meant for intercity travel between Mumbai and Pune that carry thousands of regular commuters. The other five being the Sinhagad Express, Deccan Queen, Deccan Express, Indrayani Express and the Intercity Express. Although all trains have the same livery, the Pragati Express takes a different route. It takes the single line electrified route between Karjat and Panvel and continues towards Diva Junction from where it continues the rest of journey towards Mumbai CSMT. Thus it completely bypasses the Karjat–Kalyan Junction–Diva Junction section of the Central Line.

Timing

The Pune–Mumbai Pragati Express Express is the 3rd of 6 dedicated trains to leave Pune Junction for Mumbai CST & is the 2nd-last train to return.

12126 Pune–Mumbai Pragati Express leaves Pune Junction every day at 07:50 hrs IST and reaches Mumbai CST at 11:15 hrs IST.

On return, the 12125 Mumbai–Pune Pragati Express leaves Mumbai CST every day at 16:25 hrs IST and reaches Pune Junction at 19:50 hrs IST.

Traction

When the train was introduced, it was hauled by WCM 2/3/5 DC locomotives as the route between Mumbai and Pune was under 1500 V DC. Post 2014, after conversion of DC to AC on Central Line, it has been hauled occasionally by Bhusawal-based WAP-4/WAM-4 or Ajni-based WAP-7. As of 18 April, 2025, due to an acute shortage of healthy electric locomotives in the Central Railway zone, this train is temporarily being hauled by a WDP-4D of the Pune loco shed, which were laying dormant until now. However, this train may be hauled by the regular electric locomotive link.

At Karjat, it gets two or three WAG-7 or WCAM-3 bankers of Kalyan shed to push the train on the ghat section between Karjat railway station and Lonavala railway station, where the gradient is 1 in 40.

Gallery

• 
  Old Pragati Express with beautiful coach
• 
  Pragati Express – with the new Uttamakristha coaches
• 
  Pragati Express – 2nd Class seating – Uttamakristha coach

Sister trains

• Dedicated Mumbai–Pune Intercity trains:

Via Kalyan	Defunct
Deccan Express	Mumbai–Pune Mail
Deccan Queen	Mumbai-Pune Passenger
Indrayani Express	Mumbai–Pune Shatabdi Express
Mumbai–Pune Intercity Express	Dadar-Pune Express
Sinhagad Express	Mumbai-Pune Janta Express
	Pune-Mumbai Passenger

See also

• Mumbai–Pune Passenger