Spanning a distance of 528km, the Vadodara to Kota route covered by the Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express in six hours and 45 minutes is the longest non-stop <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/destinations/2022/07/21/5-scenic-european-railway-journeys-the-royal-scotsman-to-the-glacier-express/" target="_blank">train ride</a> in India – until today. For the first time on Saturday, the train – that starts in New Delhi and goes all the way to Kerala's capital – will stop at Ratlam, which is 258km from Vadodara, Gujarat. As a result, the record will pass to the Mumbai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express, which goes non-stop for 465km between New Delhi and Kota, taking 5 hours and 10 minutes. Indian media<i> </i>outlet <i>OnManorama </i>reports the stop is aimed at benefiting passengers from Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and those travelling between Ratlam and New Delhi. According to Guinness World Records, the longest non-stop train journey covered 1,421km from London to Cannes in May 2006. The Eurostar train was a special service to promote Tom Hanks's blockbuster <i>The Da Vinci Code.</i> The longest train journey, meanwhile, covers 9,290km. The Trans-Siberian passes through 87 cities and 876 stations on its seven-day journey. It also hits two continents and eight time zones. With all Trans-Siberian departures halted owing to the Russia-Ukraine war, The Canadian can be credited with making the longest train journey, going from Toronto to Vancouver – over a distance of 4,466km – in four nights.