Bhubaneswar: The Indore-Puri Humsafar Express train is scheduled to operate from today, East Coast Railway (ECoR) sources said.

On the inaugural day, the train will leave Indore for Puri at 6.15 pm today as a special train. In the return direction, it will leave Puri at 8.15 am on May 14 towards Indore as a special train too.

The regular run of 19317 Indore-Puri Humsafar Express train will commence from Indore on every Tuesday with effect from May 22 and from Puri on every Wednesday with effect from May 23, railway sources said.

It would leave Indore at 12.40 pm on every Tuesday and arrive at Puri at 7.55 pm on the following days. In the return direction, the train will leave Puri at 11.55 pm on every Wednesday and reach Indore at 11.25 am on every Friday.

The train has 16 AC-3 tier coaches and two guard cum generator car. It has stoppages at Dewas, Bhopal, Itarsi, Nagpur, Rajnandgaon, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, Jharsuguda Road, Sambalpur City, Angul, Bhubaneswar and Khurda Road from both the directions.