Prime Minister on Saturday virtally flaged off six new Vande Bharat Trains including — Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Amritsar-Delhi Vande Bharat Express; Coimbatore-Bangalore Cantt Vande Bharat Express; Mangalore-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express; Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express and Ayodhya-Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express — from Ayodhya.
He also flaged off two Amrit Bharat and five other Vande Bharat services between different cities.
This Amrit Bharat Express will connect Ayodhya to Sitamarhi in Bihar, the birthplace of Sita Mata. The route of this train will be from Darbhanga in Bihar to Delhi via Ayodhya. Today itself another Amrit Bharat Express has been flagged off. This train will go from Malda to Bengaluru. Apart from this, PM Modi has also flagged off 6 new Vande Bharat trains.
Anand Vihar-Ayodhya Vande Bharat route
Vande Bharat Express will depart from Anand Vihar Terminal at 6:10 am. This train will reach Kanpur at 11 am. It will reach Lucknow at 12:25 pm and leave at 12:30 pm. After this, this train will reach Ayodhya at 2:35 pm. In return, train number 22425 Vande Bharat Express will leave from Ayodhya at 3:15 pm. It will reach Lucknow at 5:15 pm. It will leave from here at 5:20 pm. This train will reach Kanpur from Lucknow and leave from there at 6:35 pm. After this, Bharat will reach Anand Vihar at 11:40 pm. AC chaircar fare from Anand Vihar to Ayodhya will be around Rs 1,420. Whereas, the fare for executive class is proposed to be Rs 2,760.
Route of Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat trains
In its inaugural run, the 02705 Jalna-Mumbai Vande Bharat train will tentatively depart from the city in the Marathwada region at 11am and will arrive in the metropolis at 6:45pm. As per the release, the train will halt at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, formerly Aurangabad, at 11:55 am, Manmad Junction at 1:44 pm, Nasik Road at 2:44 pm, Kalyan Junction at 5.06 pm, Thane at 5.28 pm and Dadar at 5.50 pm before proceeding to CSMT in Mumbai. In its regular run from January 1, the train will leave CSMT at 1:10 pm and reach Jalna at 8:30 pm, while from January 2, it will depart from Jalna at 5:05 am and reach CSMT at 11:55am.
Central Railway, however, has not given details of the fare structure of the new service, which will run on all days except Wednesday. While Jalna has a thriving steel sector, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has MSME hubs as well as the upcoming AURIC industrial city. It is Maharashtra's 7th Vande Bharat service, six of which are operated on the CR network. It will be the 5th Vande Bharat service to run from Mumbai, as per the CR release.
