If you like to travel by train and catch a train from Delhi to Kanpur, then from June this year you are going to get good news. Indian Railways has said that the journey of vande bharat from Delhi to Kanpur can be completed in just 210 minutes.
From Monday 20 March, Vande Bharat Express has started running equipped with world class facilities. Delhi Varanasi Vande Bharat Express is going to run for 6 days in a week except Thursday.
Delhi Varanasi Vande Bharat Express has become the first train of Delhi Howrah route whose coach speed is going to be 180 kmph. Due to non-covering of the railway track, at present the maximum speed of New Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express will remain 130 km.
Indian Railway officials have said that the preparations for the operation of the new Vande Bharat Express have been completed. From operations, signaling to carriage and wagon department is ready for the new vande bharat train.
After 3 months the speed of Varanasi Vande Bharat Express train will be 160 km per hour. From the month of June this year, Vande Bharat train will complete the journey from Delhi to Kanpur in 3.30 hours. With this, the distance from Kanpur to Prayagraj will be covered in two and a half hours. At present it takes 248 minutes to reach Kanpur from Delhi.
Officials of Indian Railways have said that the Vande Bharat Express train running with new coaches on the Delhi-Howrah route is the first train with a maximum speed of 180 kmph. In Vande Bharat Train it has been made more convenient along with the safety of the passengers. Railway is working on increasing the speed of Vande Bharat train.
Vande Bharat train is going to run soon between Delhi to Rajasthan’s capital Jaipur. The operation of Delhi to Jaipur Vande Bharat trains is going to start soon. The first rake of the Vande Bharat train can reach Jaipur by March 25, after which the trial run of the Vande Bharat train will take place. Regular operation of Delhi-Jaipur Vande Bharat Train is likely to start in April.
Till now 10 Vande Bharat Express are running in the country. New Delhi-Varanasi, New Delhi-Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, Gandhinagar and Mumbai, New Delhi to Amb Andaura in Himachal Pradesh, Chennai-Mysuru, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri, Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam, Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi and Mumbai- Vande Bharat trains are currently running on the Solapur route.
New features of Varanasi Vande Bharat
- High efficiency compressor fitted with UV lamp for pollution free air
- Four cameras instead of platform side two in Vande Bharat coach, every outside activity will be captured
- There will be no darkness in the coach if the lighting system fails, four emergency lights are on
- The information system inside the coach will be 32 inches instead of 24.
- There will be four emergency windows in each coach, which were only two earlier.
- Kavach means collision protection system has been installed in the new rake.
- Seat numbers written in Braille on seat handles for visually impaired passengers
