Vande Bharat Express, India's first semi-high speed train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th Feb.from the New Delhi Railway Station.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and members of the Railway Board were present on the occation and boarded the train on its inaugural journey.The train will travel from Delhi to Varanasi in nine hours and forty-five minutes. It has a stoppage time of 40 minutes each at Kanpur and Prayagraj, where there will be special programmes. The PM did the inspection of the train and said he is proud that such a train had been produced indigenously at the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai in 18 months.
Vande Bharat Express has a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi trains but with better facilities. It gives totally new travel experience to passengers.
The bookings for the train has begun and are running commercially from February 17 from Delhi to Varanasi five days a week.
The train has two executive coaches along with 16 other air conditioned coaches.The total seating capacity is 1,128 passengers. All coaches have automatic doors, GPS-based audio-visual passenger information system, on-board hotspot, WiFi for entertainment purposes with comfortable seating. All toilets are bio-vacuum type.
The Vande Bharat Express, broke down early on Saturday and was stranded around 18km from Tundla at 6.30 am. The Vande Bharat Express was returning from Varanasi to New Delhi when it experienced an issue related to brakes in the train's last coaches.
Train 18 started making strange sounds which was scheduled to reach Delhi in around 2.5 hours, following which smoke with a foul smell was noticed in the last four coaches. During inspection, it was founded that breaks of the last few coaches had jammed, following which they decided to move the train at 10 kmph. However, the train encountered the same problem again. The issue was resolved and the train engineers, after consulting with senior officials, decided to run it at 40 kmph.
The railway ministry issued a statement that Vande Bharat Express was standing 18km from Tundla since 6.30 am where it seemed to be disruption due to a possible cattle run over. This was not Train 18's commercial run. The train was bought to Delhi for its first commercial journey. The train is already overbooked beyond the capacity and can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph.There stands a possibility of uncertainty over the first commercial run of Train 18 on Sunday due to the breakdown.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make-in-India’ initiative referring to the breakdown of Vande Bharat Express and said that most people feel it has failed.
Gandhi said that the government's policy needs to rethink. He assured that the Congress are thinking very deeply about how it will be done, Gandhi tweeted.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday slammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi after he mocked central government's 'Make in India' campaign over the breakdown of Vande Bharat Express.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal retaliated strongly and said it is a shame that Rahul Gandhi chose to attack the hard work and ingenuity of Indian engineers, technicians, and labourers.
Reacting to Goyal's comment, senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam asked the railway minister to not react in frustration.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and members of the Railway Board were present on the occation and boarded the train on its inaugural journey.The train will travel from Delhi to Varanasi in nine hours and forty-five minutes. It has a stoppage time of 40 minutes each at Kanpur and Prayagraj, where there will be special programmes. The PM did the inspection of the train and said he is proud that such a train had been produced indigenously at the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai in 18 months.
Vande Bharat Express has a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi trains but with better facilities. It gives totally new travel experience to passengers.
The bookings for the train has begun and are running commercially from February 17 from Delhi to Varanasi five days a week.
The train has two executive coaches along with 16 other air conditioned coaches.The total seating capacity is 1,128 passengers. All coaches have automatic doors, GPS-based audio-visual passenger information system, on-board hotspot, WiFi for entertainment purposes with comfortable seating. All toilets are bio-vacuum type.
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Train 18 started making strange sounds which was scheduled to reach Delhi in around 2.5 hours, following which smoke with a foul smell was noticed in the last four coaches. During inspection, it was founded that breaks of the last few coaches had jammed, following which they decided to move the train at 10 kmph. However, the train encountered the same problem again. The issue was resolved and the train engineers, after consulting with senior officials, decided to run it at 40 kmph.
The railway ministry issued a statement that Vande Bharat Express was standing 18km from Tundla since 6.30 am where it seemed to be disruption due to a possible cattle run over. This was not Train 18's commercial run. The train was bought to Delhi for its first commercial journey. The train is already overbooked beyond the capacity and can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph.There stands a possibility of uncertainty over the first commercial run of Train 18 on Sunday due to the breakdown.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make-in-India’ initiative referring to the breakdown of Vande Bharat Express and said that most people feel it has failed.
Gandhi said that the government's policy needs to rethink. He assured that the Congress are thinking very deeply about how it will be done, Gandhi tweeted.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday slammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi after he mocked central government's 'Make in India' campaign over the breakdown of Vande Bharat Express.
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal retaliated strongly and said it is a shame that Rahul Gandhi chose to attack the hard work and ingenuity of Indian engineers, technicians, and labourers.
Reacting to Goyal's comment, senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam asked the railway minister to not react in frustration.
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