 The train covered the distance from Mangalore to Peshawar on the Khyber Pass in 104 hours.After 1930 the route of the Grand Trunk Express was curtailed and the train originated from Mettupalayam, Coimbatore.Trains from here connect the city to prominent state capitals of India like Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram (via Southern Railway), Mumbai,Thane, Delhi, Ajmer, Ahmedabad (via Konkan Railways) and so forth.