• Bilaspur-Nagpur Vande Bharat Express will be operated by South East Central Railway (SECR) and will have scheduled stops at Raipur, Durg and Gondia as per a report.
Indian Railways is all set to start 6th Vande Bharat Express between Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) – Nagpur (Maharashtra) route on 11th December. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to inaugurate the semi-high-speed train of the Indian Railways on Sunday.
A Hindustan Times report quoted a railway official as saying that the Bilaspur-Nagpur Vande Bharat Express will run six days a week and cover one leg of the journey in about five-and-a-half hours.
"The Bilaspur-Nagpur Vande Bharat train will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Nagpur on Sunday (December 11)," the official said. The train will leave Nagpur at 2 pm and reach Bilaspur at 7.35 pm. At present superfast trains take around seven hours to reach Nagpur, however this train will cover the distance in around five and a half hours," the official said.
Bilaspur-Nagpur Vande Bharat Express will be operated by South East Central Railway (SECR) and will have scheduled stops at Raipur, Durg and Gondia.
Vande Bharat Express can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi trains but
Better facilities It aims to provide a completely new travel experience to passengers.
Vande Bharat Express is India's first semi high speed train equipped with world class passenger amenities. This
Get higher speed due to faster acceleration and deceleration and will reduce travel time by 25% to 45%.
The Vande Bharat Express train has an intelligent braking system which enables better acceleration and deceleration. All coaches are equipped with automatic doors; GPS based audio-visual passenger information system, on-board hotspot Wi-Fi for entertainment purposes and comfortable seating arrangements. There are also swivel chairs in executive class.
Vande Bharat 2.0 has improved heat ventilation and air conditioning control through high efficiency compressor with Ultra Violet (UV) lamp for germ free supply of air. The time taken by the train to reach the speed of 160 kmph will be 140 seconds as compared to 145 seconds earlier.
The train has improved ventilation for the traction motor for better reliability. There will also be two signal exchange lights on the coaches for exchange of signals with the way stations.
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