The Chennai Egmore – Nagercoil Vande Bharat Express that will cover 724 km in under nine hours will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. The intercity train will run six days a week, except on Wednesdays. For end to end travel, the fare would be Rs 1,650 to Rs 1,700 for chair car class ticket. The announcement… Continue reading "PM to flag off Chennai to Nagercoil VB tomorrow"
The trial run for the much-awaited Vande Bharat rail service connecting Madurai and Bengaluru began on Monday. The train departed Madurai railway station at 5.15 am, and reached the destination point of Bengaluru at 1.15 pm, as per schedule. On return, the train departed Bengaluru railway station (SMVB) at 1.45 pm, and was scheduled to reach Madurai railway station at… Continue reading "Vande Bharat Express trial run from Madurai to Bengaluru conducted succesfully"
The Tamil Nadu unit of the BJP informed on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Chennai on June 20 has been postponed due to administrative reasons. State BJP Vice President Karu Nagarajan stated that the new date for the visit will be announced later. “Due to administrative reasons, PM’s Tamil Nadu visit has been postponed. Soon, we… Continue reading "PM Modi’s Chennai trip to launch new Vande Bharat train postponed"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually flag off the inaugural run of the Vande Bharat Express between Dr MGR Chennai Central and Mysuru today, Southern Railway has said. The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the extended Vande Bharat Service from Mangaluru Central to Thiruvananthapuram Central, and the new Kollam–Tirupati Express, through video conferencing. .The Chennai–Bengaluru–Mysuru train is the second Vande… Continue reading "PM Modi flags off Vande Bharat train between Chennai-Mysuru"
In order to help the rush of passengers during the festival season in Tamil Nadu, the Southern Indian Railways has decided to launch a special weekly express. The special Vande Bharat express will cover the major stations of Chennai Egmore, and Nagercoil in its weekly journey, which will be Thursday, as per a report by the Times of India. The… Continue reading "Vande Bharat weekly special train between Chennai – Nagercoil"
Tamil Nadu is set to get its fourth Vande Bharat Express train that will connect Coimbatore with Bengaluru (Karnataka). After launching the Coimbatore – Pollachi non-reserved train service, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan has informed that the Coimbatore–Bengaluru Vande Bharat train service would commence on December 30. This will be the second Vande Bharat Express… Continue reading "Coimbatore-Bengaluru Vande Bharat service to be launched on December 30"
The Southern Railway has announced operation of Vande Bharat Weekly special train on Tuesdays between Chennai Central and Coimbatore, to cater to the extra rush of traffic, fulfilling the aspirations of the travelling public in the Western region for a pairing train. As per the announcement, 10 services of the special train will be operated from November 28 to January… Continue reading "Vande Bharat special train to be operated from Chennai to Coimbatore"
Indian Railways Sunday said it has introduced the ‘14 minute clean-up’ milestone for every Vande Bharat trains from October 1, emulating the rapid cleaning procedures followed in Japan for bullet train, where the trains are cleaned in seven minutes. Vande Bharat trains will be covered under the “14-minute miracle” scheme which is set to be launched on October 1 at… Continue reading "Vande Bharat train gets cleaned in 14 minutes"
The first Vande Bharat Express between Tirunelveli and Chennai began running on Sunday. It was among the nine new VB Express services, including one on Vijayawada – Dr MGR Chennai Central route, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off virtually during the day. A large number of people thronged the Tirunelveli station from where the train started around 1 pm… Continue reading "Chennai-Tirunelveli Vande Bharat services begins"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off five new Vande Bharat Express trains physically and virtually from Rani Kamlapati Railway Station in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal on Tuesday. PM who is scheduled to visit Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, taking to Twitter wrote, “I will be in Bhopal tomorrow, 27th June to take part in two programmes. First, 5 Vande Bharat trains… Continue reading "PM Modi to flag off five Vande Bharat trains in Madhya Pradesh today"