Indian Railways passengers, take a note! The Railway Ministry has announced that the very first semi-higher speed, engine-much less train service of Indian Railways- Vande Bharat Express from New Delhi to Varanasi will run with Tejas Express rake from 15 February to 31 March 2021. According to a press release issued by the Northern Railway zone, the rake of the New Delhi-Varanasi-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express train will go for its upkeep of essential security more than hauling work. Hence, train quantity 02435/02436 New Delhi-Varanasi-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express train will be operated by the national transporter with the rake of Tejas Express train from 15 February to 31 March 2021.
The New Delhi-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the New Delhi Railway Station (NDLS) on 15 February 2020. The Vande Bharat Express train, which has travel classes like Shatabdi Train but with improved facilities, can run up to a maximum speed of 160 km per hour. This semi-higher speed train service covers the distance among the national capital and Varanasi in just eight hours. It has 16 AC coaches of which two coaches are of executive class. The train has a seating capacity of 1,128 passengers in total.
The state-of-the-art Vande Bharat Express train has ultra modern day characteristics such as automatic sliding doors, swift acceleration, on board infotainment as properly as Global Positioning System (GPS) based passenger details technique, zero discharge vacuum bio toilets, retractable footsteps, and so forth. The Vande Bharat Express coaches have a regenerative braking technique, which can save up to 30 per cent of electrical power.
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) at present operates Tejas Express trains among Lucknow and Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai, and a Humsafar Express train among Indore and Varanasi, connecting 3 Jyotirlinga shrines – Mahakaleshwar, Omkareshwar, and Kashi Vishwanath.