PM to flag off 10 Vande Bharat trains tomorrow, total count to cross 50

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off ten additional Vande Bharat services, bringing the total number of Vande Bharat trains in the country to over 50. PM inaugurated the second phase of Vande Bharat trains on various routes including Patna-Lucknow, New Jalpaiguri-Patna, Puri-Visakhapatnam, Kalaburagi-Bangalore, Ranchi-Varanasi, Khajuraho-Delhi, Ahmedabad-Mumbai, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Mysore-Chennai and Lucknow-Dehradun.

Additionally, the routes of four existing Vande Bharat services will be extended. Ahmedabad-Jamnagar service will now operate up to Dwarka, the Ajmer-Delhi service will be extended to Chandigarh, the Gorakhpur-Lucknow service will reach Prayagraj and the Thiruvananthapuram-Kasaragod Express in Kerala will extend its service to Mangalore.

On December 23, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched six Vande Bharat Express services. With the addition of ten more trains, the total count of Vande Bharats operating in the country will be 51, covering 45 routes. Six trains operate on the same route, with two each connecting Delhi to Katra (Jammu and Kashmir) and Delhi to Varanasi. Two trains run between Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mysuru-Chennai and Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram.

Delhi will have the highest number of Vande Bharat trains if all ten services commence tomorrow, with ten out of the 51 trains connected to the capital. These trains provide direct services from Delhi to Dehradun, Bhopal, Ayodhya, Amritsar, Khajuraho, Amb Andaura, Varanasi and Katra.