There are already 25 Vande Bharat Express trains operating throughout the nation, with the addition of nine more routes on Sunday bringing the total to 34.
On Sunday, nine Vande Bharat train trips are expected to begin. Jaipur-Udaipur, Patna-Howrah, Ranchi-Howrah, Hyderabad-Chennai, Chennai-Tirunelveli, Indore-Jaipur, Puri-Rourkela, Jaipur-Chandigarh, and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad are among the new routes being introduced.
Two more Vande Bharat Express trains will be added to Bengal. Patna-Howrah and Ranchi-Howrah are two of the new railway lines. According to sources, the train will include 25 extra features.
This is also Bihar’s second Vande Bharat Express, after the June 27 launch of the Patna-Ranchi Vande Bharat.
The Patna-Howrah Vande Bharat train is planned to travel 535 kilometers in around 6 hours and 30 minutes at a typical pace of 90 km per hour. While the railways figure out the precise tariff, it is expected to be Rs 2,650 in AC executive class and Rs 1,450 in AC chair car per person for a single trip with meals/breakfast.
Indore-Jaipur Vande Bharat: Indore will also be served by another Vande Bharat Express, this time to Jaipur. PM Modi already inaugurated five Vande Bharat trains from Bhopal earlier this year.
Currently, Indore has just one Vande Bharat Express route to Bhopal, which has struggled to fill seats owing to the abundance of travel options between the two cities. Bhopal, on the other hand, has Vande trains that link it to Gwalior, Jabalpur, and New Delhi.
Bengaluru-Hyderabad Vande Bharat Express will travel the 610 km trip in only eight and a half hours. The train will travel at an average speed of 71 kilometers per hour.
A test run is planned for Thursday. According to the planned itinerary, the train would leave from Kacheguda in Hyderabad at 5:30 a.m. and arrive in Yeshwantpur at 2:00 p.m. On the way back, it will leave Bengaluru at 2:45 p.m. and arrive in Hyderabad at 11:15 p.m.
The train will stop at Mahabubnagar, Kurnool City, Anantapur, Dhone, and Dharmavaram. Except on Wednesdays, this new service will be available every day.
There are now 20 train services between Bengaluru and Hyderabad, including superfast, Rajdhani, postal express, and others, with the majority of them taking 12 hours to reach Kacheguda from Bengaluru.
