India’s first Gati Shakti Express train is starting from Friday i.e. today, This train will run between Anand Vihar in the country’s capital Delhi to Patna.
New Delhi. Now people will get the facility to travel in AC train at cheap rate. Actually, India’s first Gati Shakti Express train is starting from Friday i.e. today. This train will run between Anand Vihar in the country’s capital Delhi to Patna.
Traveling cheaper in AC3 economy coaches than normal AC3 tier coaches
This train will be a fully AC3 economy class coach train. Its fare will be about 8 percent less than the normal AC3 class. At present, this train is being started as a festival special. From Anand Vihar, this train will leave at 23:10 pm and reach Patna at 15:45 am the next day. In return direction, this train will leave Patna at 17:45 and will reach Anand Vihar at 09:50 am the next day.
Gati Shakti Express will stop at these stations
On the way, this train will also stop at Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Din Dayal Upadhyay, Danapur. From Anand Vihar, this train will run on 29th and 31st October, then 2nd, 5th and 7th November and from Patna on 30th October then on 1, 3rd, 6th and 8th November.
AC3 tier economy class has 83 berths.
There are 83 berths in AC 3 Tier Economy Class. For this, instead of 2, 3 berths have been kept on the side. Whereas AC3 has 72 berths. That is, there are about 15 percent more berths in AC-3 economy class than in AC3. This means that the Railways is going to benefit more than the AC-3 economy class coaches.
At present, some coaches of AC3 economy class have been prepared at Kapurthala Rail Coach Factory. These coaches have been sent to different railway zones across the country. Right now a plan is being prepared to put them in different trains. Railways is going to prepare 800 coaches of AC-3 economy this year. Of these, 300 coaches will be manufactured at Integral Coach Factory Chennai, 285 coaches at Modern Coach Factory Rae Bareli and 177 at Rail Coach Factory Kapurthala.