Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off 10 new Vande Bharat trains on Tuesday, March 12, expanding the total count to over 50 and covering 45 nationwide routes. At present, the Indian Railways operates 41 Vande Bharat Express services, connecting states with Broad Gauge (BG) electrified networks and spanning 24 states and 256 districts.
Six routes, including Delhi-Katra, Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mysuru-Chennai, Kasaragod–Thiruvananthapuram, and now, Visakhapatnam–Secunderabad, will have two Vande Bharat trains operating.
Vande Bharat trains primarily run on electrified broad gauge networks spanning various states.
In December 2023, the prime minister inaugurated six additional Vande Bharat trains. These comprised the second train connecting Katra to New Delhi. Other routes included Amritsar to Delhi, Coimbatore to Bangalore, Mangalore to Madgaon, Jalna to Mumbai, and Ayodhya to Delhi. The second train between Delhi and Varanasi was also inaugurated in December 2023.
Check routes of new Vande Bharat trains
Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central
Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam
Mysuru- Dr. MGR Central (Chennai)
Patna- Lucknow
New Jalpaiguri-Patna
Puri-Visakhapatnam
Lucknow – Dehradun
Kalaburagi – Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru
Ranchi-Varanasi
Khajuraho- Delhi (Nizamuddin).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also flag off the extension of four Vande Bharat trains on Tuesday.
Ahmedabad-Jamnagar Vande Bharat is being extended till Dwarka
Ajmer- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Vande Bharat is being extended till Chandigarh
Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat is being extended till Prayagraj
Thiruvananthapuram- Kasargod Vande Bharat is being extended till Mangaluru
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