Railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced 56 new express trains in the Railway Budget 2011-12. Apart from these express trains, several other new trains, such as nine Duranto trains, two double-decker AC trains and three Shatabdi trains — were also announced .
The new Shatabdi Express will link Pune-Secunderabad, Jaipur-Agra and Ludhiana-Delhi while the AC double-decker services are proposed on the Jaipur-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes. The Duronto trains are Allahabad-Mumbai AC (bi-weekly), Pune-Ahmedabad AC (tri-weekly), Sealdah-Puri non-AC (tri-weekly), Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam AC (tri-weekly), Madurai-Chennai AC (bi-weekly), Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram AC (bi-weekly), Mumbai Central-New Delhi AC (bi-weekly), Nizamuddin-Ajmer non-AC (bi-weekly) and Shalimar-Patna (tri-weekly).