Pragati Express is composed of 15 LHB Coaches, as follows: Pragati Express service is run using a single LHB rake and is maintained after every round trip in Pune at the Ghorpadi coaching depot 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.

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.

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.

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.