Vande Bharat Express can run up to a maximum speed of 100 kmph and gives the travel experience like Shatabdi trains.
A trial run of the Vande Bharat train is being done
Vande Bharat Express is going to run between Howrah to Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the train on December 30. Eastern Railway will operate this train. The train is being trialed.
Eklavya Chakraborty, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Eastern Railway, said, “The improved facilities in the train include four emergency windows for easy evacuation of passengers in case of emergency. In case of failure of all other lights in case of disaster, four disaster lights will also be installed in each coach. The trains will have a pushback mechanism to recline the seats for a more comfortable travel experience.”
Know the specialty of Vande Bharat,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15 that 75 Vande Bharat Express trains will connect every nook and corner of the country in the 75 weeks of the Amrit Mahotsav of Independence. The first train-set (Train-18) is of 16 chair-car coaches. It has 16 air-conditioned coaches out of which two are of executive class. The semi-high-speed Train 18, recently named Vande Bharat Express, can run at a maximum speed of 100 kmph and provide a travel experience similar to Shatabdi trains.
In Bengal, the train will go from Howrah to New Jalpaiguri in 7 hours and 30 minutes. This includes a stoppage of 10 minutes each at New Farakka and Malda stations. The total seat capacity is 1,128. Every coach has pantry facilities for serving hot food and hot and cold beverages. All coaches have automatic doors, a GPS-based audio-visual passenger information system, onboard hotspot WiFi for entertainment purposes, and comfortable seating. All toilets work on bio-vacuum. The lights on the train are in dual mode, individual for each seat.
Let us inform you that the first Vande Bharat train ran on the Varanasi-Delhi route and the second on the Katra-Delhi route. This semi-high-speed train has facilities like onboard infotainment, GPS-based passenger information system, CCTV coaches, automatic doors with retractable coach footsteps, and bio-toilets.
