Dehradun-Delhi Vande Bharat Express from today: PM Modi will flag off through video conferencing

The country’s first Vande Bharat Express left Delhi on 15 February 2019.

Prime Minister Modi will flag off Uttarakhand’s first and country’s 18th Vande Bharat Express today. This train going from Dehradun to Delhi is the 5th Vande Bharat train to be launched this year. The inauguration ceremony will be held at 11 am in Dehradun, where Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami will also be present.

Speed ​​of Vande Bharat will be different
Officials say that after the inauguration, the train will run on a regular basis on May 27. Loco pilot of Vande Bharat Express train Kshetrapal Singh said, the speed of Vande Bharat Express train will run at a speed of 110 km per hour. This train with 8 coaches will run for 6 days except Wednesday. The distance from Delhi to Dehradun is about 292 kilometers, which it will cover in four and a half hours. The average speed of the train will be 65 kilometers per hour.

Trial run was done on Tuesday

Passengers taking selfie with Vande Bharat Express which reached Saharanpur during the trial run.

The trial run of the Vande Bharat Express train was taken on Tuesday morning. The train reached Saharanpur at around 7 am. From here left for Dehradun. The train reached Saharanpur again at 4.18 pm. There was a lot of enthusiasm among the passengers about the train. Passengers took selfies with the train. The train left for Delhi at 4.27.

this will be the schedule
Vande Bharat Express train will leave from Dehradun at 7 am. After traveling for about four and a half hours, it will reach Delhi’s Anand Vihar station at 11.19 am. In the return direction, the same train will leave Anand Vihar station at 5.20 pm and reach Dehradun at 10.20 pm. How much will be the fare, Railways has not announced it yet.

Vande Bharat will have stoppage at these 5 stations
Dehradun-Anand Vihar Vande Bharat Express train will take halt at 5 stations. This includes Haridwar, Roorkee, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar and Meerut City stations. Due to this, there will be no problem in the movement of people from Delhi to Haridwar, Mussoorie and Rishikesh.

Vande Bharat increased the convenience of railway passengers
India has the fourth longest rail network in the world. Here more than 11 thousand trains run everyday on 1.25 lakh kilometer long railway track. About 3 crore people travel everyday through these trains. Due to being so big and connected to the people, a separate budget was presented for the Railways in India. In 2016, the Modi government stopped this 92-year-old practice.

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