While addressing the youth, he stated that the inaugurated services are for their present, while the foundation stone-laying guarantees a promising future. Currently, Indian Railways operates 41 Vande Bharat Express services, connecting states through Broad Gauge electrified networks across 24 states and 256 districts.
With regard to this, the Prime Minister added that the nation’s development work over the past decade is just a glimpse of what lies ahead. After inaugurating and laying the foundation for various railway projects, Modi expressed that this day is a living proof of willpower. He urged the youth to shape the future of the country and its railway system.
While addressing the youth, he stated that the inaugurated services are for their present, while the foundation stone-laying guarantees a promising future. Currently, Indian Railways operates 41 Vande Bharat Express services, connecting states through Broad Gauge electrified networks across 24 states and 256 districts.
If reports are to go by, six routes, including Delhi-Katra, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Delhi-Varanasi, Mysuru-Chennai, Kasaragod–Thiruvananthapuram, and the new Visakhapatnam–Secunderabad route, will now feature two Vande Bharat trains. These trains primarily operate on electrified broad gauge networks across various states.
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In December 2023, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated six additional Vande Bharat trains, enhancing connectivity on routes such as Katra to New Delhi, Amritsar to Delhi, Coimbatore to Bangalore, Mangalore to Madgaon, Jalna to Mumbai, and Ayodhya to Delhi.
The latest 10 Vande Bharat Express trains that have been flagged off will cover following routes:
- Lucknow-Dehradun
- Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central
- New Jalpaiguri-Patna
- Patna-Lucknow
- Khajuraho-Delhi (Nizamuddin)
- Puri-Visakhapatnam
- Kalaburagi–Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru
- Ranchi-Varanasi
- Mysuru-Dr. MGR Central (Chennai)
- Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam
Additionally, Prime Minister Modi extended four existing Vande Bharat trains: Gorakhpur-Lucknow to Prayagraj, Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod to Mangaluru, Ahmedabad-Jamnagar to Dwarka, and Ajmer-Delhi Sarai Rohilla to Chandigarh.
Introduced by Indian Railways in 2019, the Vande Bharat Express was initially a prototype for faster travel. Over the time, the train has undergone improvements, featuring faster acceleration and deceleration, ambient lighting, aircraft-style toilets, personalised reading lights, automatic interconnecting doors, fully sealed gangways, modern luggage racks, European-style seats, and more.
Reports further add that the Indian Railways is now working on a sleeper version of the Vande Bharat Express for overnight travel, with a prototype being manufactured in Bengaluru by BEML. Recently, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the car body of the sleeper version.