Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat train is likely to start after this week. Apart from this, preparations are being made to run these semi high speed trains on 4 other routes.
New Delhi. Vande Bharat Express, the first semi-high speed train on different routes of the country, is gaining speed. The special thing is that this premium train is running with full occupancy. Since people are liking the journey of Vande Bharat, the Railways is rapidly expanding this train. In this episode, in the coming one to one and a half months, 5 new Vande Bharat trains will run on different routes. According to a Live Mint report, by the end of June, the Railways will launch at least 5 new Vande Bharat semi-high-speed trains. Of these, the Vande Bharat train between Puri-Howrah is likely to start this week.
After the start of Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat train, New Jalpaiguri-Guwahati Vande Bharat train will start. Then another Vande Bharat train is expected to run on the Patna-Ranchi route. The Vande Bharat train starting in Guwahati will be the first semi high speed train for the Northeast. Let us tell you in detail the information related to these new Vande Bharat trains.
Possible schedule of Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat
According to media reports, the Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat Express starting this week will leave West Bengal’s Howrah at 5:50 am and reach Puri at 11:50 am. Whereas, in return, this train will leave from Puri at 2 pm and reach Howrah at 7:30 pm. At present, the full schedule of this train has not come at which stations it will stop.
However, during the trial run, it had a stoppage of 2 minutes each at Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneshwar and Khurda. The Odisha government has demanded the introduction of more semi-high-speed trains on the Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Puri-Raipur and Puri-Howrah routes after the successful trial run of the Vande Bharat Express train on the Howrah-Puri route.
Vande Bharat Express will also run on these routes
While the second Vande Bharat train will run between Jalpaiguri and Guwahati. With this, Northeast India will get the first Vande Bharat Express train. Vande Bharat Express train will also be run between Patna and Ranchi, as well as Vande Bharat Express train is about to start between Delhi-Dehradun. Apart from this, it is not known on which route the fifth train will run.
At present, it is not known at which stations the Vande Bharat Express train running between Delhi to Dehradun will stop. But speculations are being made that it may have stops in Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee and Haridwar. But the schedule is not finalized yet.