Modern LHB coach with a MPS (Maximum Permissible Speed) of 160 km/h are more comfortable.

The new coaches, based on a German technology Linke Hoffman Busch (LHB), are made of stainless steel which do not turn turtle during accidents.

Bigger windows, biotoilets, lamps at all AC seats and sound insulation are the other features.

It runs from Allahabad Junction via Fatehpur, Kanpur Central, Aligarh, Ghaziabad to New Delhi.

In dense fog, on 2 January 2010, the Gorakhdham Express and Prayagraj Express collided near the Panki railway station near Kanpur, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Lucknow.