Vande Bharat Express: Minister of Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw today informed that Surekha Yadav has become the first woman loco pilot of Vande Bharat Express.
The Delhi- Varanasi Vande Bharat express has been recently upgraded and will now operate five days a week instead of the previous four.
Indian Railways plans to manufacture 120 advanced Vande Bharat trains at Marathwada Rail Coach Factory in Latur, Maharashtra, to boost the railway sector and generate employment opportunities.
Earlier last month, the newly inaugurated Howrah-New Jalpaiguri semi-high-speed train was vandalised by some miscreant.
Drone view of the new Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway with the Vande Bharat train passing underneath, a powerful visual symbol of how global-standard infrastructure is transforming India, Anand Mahindra wrote on Twitter.
A user named Pratap Kumar shared the video on Twitter. In the clip, a man squeezes out oil from the vada served on the train. After squeezing, he showcases the oil collected in the tray.
At present, all trains passing through these ghats are hauled up by additional locomotives (called bankers) from the Mumbai side.
The routes being considered for the new services are from Kacheguda in Telangana to Bengaluru in Karnataka and from Secunderabad in Telangana to Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and Pune in Maharashtra.
On January 3, the train was pelted with stones in the Kishanganj district and three boys, identified with the help of CCTV footage, were caught by the police and produced before the juvenile justice board.
So far, eight Vande Bharat Express trains are running on different routes in the country with the latest one being the Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express connecting the two states.
Viral Video | The man who boarded the train from Rajahmundry railway station to take a selfie eventually got off at Vijayawada after travelling for more than 150 Km.
Vande Bharat Express train: This is the eighth Vande Bharat Express train introduced by Indian Railways. The regular services of the train would start from January 16 and the bookings commenced on Saturday, railway sources said.
Notably, both Majumdar and ten others took to social media to report that the newly inaugurated Howrah-New Jalpaiguri semi-high-speed train was vandalised by some miscreants in West Bengal.
Vande Bharat Express: The Vande Bharat express with modern passenger amenities is likely to be preferred both by regular passengers, tea industry executives and tourists travelling to the Himalayas in North Bengal and Sikkim.
According to Prime Minister's office (PMO), Development projects worth over Rs 7,800 crore are scheduled to launch by the prime minister in West Bengal.
Not only Hydrogen trains, the Railways is manufacturing 'Vande Metro' train which will replace those designed in 1950s and 60s, the Railways minister has said.
Vande Metro trains: These Vande Metro train will be manufactured in such large numbers that across the country, the trains which were of 1950s and 1960s designs will all be replaced, the Railways Minister said.
All the coaches are equipped with automatic doors, a GPS-based audio-visual passenger information system, onboard Wi-Fi and comfortable seats. The executive class has rotating chairs.
Secunderabad-Vijayawada Vande Bharat: This will be the first such indigenously-built semi high-speed rail in South Central Railway (SCR) and second such train in south India.
WR chief public relations officer Sumit Thakur said the Vande Bharat service was running with an average occupancy of 130 per cent and has become tremendously popular with passengers.
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