Vande bharat express

The train’s AC stopped working 10 minutes before reaching Allahabad station at 4:50 pm. The defect was rectified, cooling ensured and it left at around 6.00 pm, officials said read more

The biggest challenges of the Jammu and Kashmir railway project are geographical. The alignment passes through major geological thrust zones in the region Reasi and Muree, and one major fault Sangaldan. read more

The new engine-less and semi-high speed train, which will run from New Delhi to Shri Vaishno Devi Katra (SVDK), will reduce the travel time to 8 hours from the present 12 hours. read more

Vande Bharat Express will bring down the travel time between Delhi and Katra, the last station on the way to Vaishno Devi temple, to eight hours from the current 12 hours. read more

The initiative is a part of security beef up exercise which the Railway Protection Force (RPF) has launched to keep a check on the incidents of stone pelting on the train, which has now become quite frequent. read more

According to a senior officer, the railways have adopted various environment-friendly measures in Vande Bharat Express that would help reduce its use of harmful chemicals. read more

The Northern Railways CPRO also said officials are attending to the damaged windows of the Vande Bharat Express with safety sheets to ensure that the train runs as per schedule on Sunday and passengers are not inconvenienced in any way. read more

It is important for the railways to attract comparatively prosperous passengers because they are the people who play a crucial role in preventing the railways from suffering neglect read more

According to local railway officials, at the time of the incident, the semi-high speed train was travelling at a speed of 99km\/hr and despite applying the brakes the train still hit the bike. read more

A stone was hurled at the Vande Bharat Express on Wednesday breaking one of its window panes, the third such incident in two months involving India’s fastest train. The train was crossing Tundla junction when the incident happened, Northern Railway spokesperson... read more

Train 18, which was recently rechristened Vande Bharat Express, had left Varanasi Junction for Delhi at 10:30 pm Friday, nearly 45 minutes after reaching the holy city on its inaugural journey. read more

Train 18, which was recently renamed as Vande Bharat Express by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, became the country’s fastest train by hitting speeds of over 180 kmph during a trial run on a section of the Delhi-Varanasi route. read more

The 16-coach train was built in 18 months at a cost of Rs 97 crore by the Integral Coach Factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli, in 18 months. The first locomotive-less train in the country is being seen as a successor to the 30-year-old premier Shatabdi... read more

The serving staff on the train – commercial operations start on February 17 – will be trained to be courteous to passengers and offer hand sanitisers at meal times. read more

The semi-high speed train is scheduled to be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 15. read more