Thane to Lucknow train

Trains from Thane to Lucknow start at €96.04 and take 8h 12m at their fastest.

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The Trains from Thane to Lucknow starts at €96.04 and takes 8h 12m door to door, run by 4 operators over 1,201 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 21 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 8h 12mDoor to door
  • 4h 55mMoving
  • €137.84 to €317.14From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 82.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€137.84 to €317.14 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Departure times on this route

12Go lists the departures it sells between Thane and Lucknow.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €294.04Wed23
  2. about €317.14Thu24
  3. about €308.89Fri25
  4. about €241.79Sat26
  5. about €219.79Sun27
  6. about €195.04Mon28
  7. about €197.24Tue29
  8. about €181.84Wed30
  9. about €195.59Thu1
  10. about €168.64Fri2
  11. about €182.94Sat3
  12. about €143.89Sun4
  13. about €137.84Mon5
  14. about €142.24Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Cheapest€96.04
  1. Cental Railway CR959507:303h 32m11:02Thane railway stationIndore Junction railway station
  2. IndiGo Airlines IG383312:221h 23m13:45Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar International Airport IDRChaudhary Charan Singh International Airport LKO

Changes at Indore, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 8h 12mCO2 164.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Lowest CO2€118.59
  1. Cental Railway CR142007:304h 28m11:58Thane railway stationBhopal Bhadbhada Ghat
  2. East Coast Railway EC742513:354h 1m17:36Bhopal Bhadbhada GhatLucknow City railway station

Changes at Bhopal, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 50mCO2 38.8 kgChanges 1Refundable

Carriers

Train operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
North Eastern Railway140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
East Coast Railway140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
Cental Railway140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
IndiGo Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published

The train gets you into Lucknow. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Lucknow for the night the train gets in

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Booking window

When to book Thane to Lucknow

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €129.0490 days
  2. €113.6460 days
  3. €114.1945 days
  4. €113.0930 days
  5. €96.0421 days
  6. €142.2414 days
  7. €197.247 days
  8. €308.893 days
  9. €294.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €96.04.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 222 percent. The dearest point is €308.89, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €143.89Sun
  2. €137.84Mon
  3. €142.24Tue
  4. €181.84Wed
  5. €195.59Thu
  6. €168.64Fri
  7. €182.94Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Thāne

Rail
  • Thane railway station
  • Kalwa railway station
  • Mulund railway station

Lucknow

Rail
  • Lucknow City railway station
  • Lucknow Alambagh railway station
  • Lucknow Charbagh railway station
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,201 km against 1,176 km in a straight line, a detour of 6 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Kanpur, Indore, Bhopal. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Thane at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Thane to Lucknow

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Thane to Lucknow take?

The Train from Thane to Lucknow takes 8h 12m door to door, of which 4h 55m is spent moving. The route runs 1,201 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Thane to Lucknow cost?

The Train from Thane to Lucknow starts at €96.04 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €118.59. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Thane to Lucknow?

4 operators run the Train from Thane to Lucknow: North Eastern Railway, East Coast Railway, Cental Railway, IndiGo Airlines. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Thane to Lucknow use?

The Train from Thane to Lucknow leaves from Thane railway station and arrives at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport LKO. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Thane to Lucknow?

Fares for the Train from Thane to Lucknow bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €96.04. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 222 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Thane to Lucknow produce?

The Train from Thane to Lucknow produces about 82.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1201 km, which works out at roughly 69 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Thane to Lucknow?

Operators on the Train from Thane to Lucknow publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 4 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 8h 12m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Thane to Lucknow on 22 September 2026: 1201 km of route against 1176 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €96.04, and 8h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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