The train operates four days a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays from both ends.

The rake for this train was procured by North Eastern Railways, Lucknow Division from the Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala on 21 April 2014.

Followed by this, rigorous trials at all platforms of Lucknow Junction railway station were carried out the following day.

[4] Finally the safety clearance from Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) was given [5] and the train chugged off after four months.

The Time table is as follows: 12583 Lucknow Junction NER to Anand Vihar Terminal 12584 Anand Vihar Terminal to Lucknow Jn NER In a response to the numerous complaints from passengers pertaining to unavailability of catering services and buffet car in the train, North Eastern Railways consented to initiate the facility with effect from 17 July 2015.

The train was inaugurated and further planned to run with twelve Double Decked LHB AC Chair Car coaches, but due to technical reasons, the composition was revised to ten such coaches and two generator cum luggage vans at each end.

[18] On 28 June 2015, the C-5 coach of the Anand Vihar bound train caught fire due to jamming of brakes to the wheels.