Vande Bharat Count Touches 75 As Three New Routes Open On Sunday
Three new Vande Bharat Express trains will be inaugurated on Sunday, connecting Bengaluru to Belagavi, Amritsar to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra, and Nagpur (Ajni) to Pune. With these additions, the total count of the Vande Bharat trains will touch 75.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the development on the social media platform X.
Look forward to being among the people of Bengaluru tomorrow, 10th August. From the KSR Railway Station, 3 Vande Bharat Express trains will be flagged off which will enhance connectivity. In a boost for Bengaluru's urban infrastructure, Yellow Line of Bengaluru Metro will be…— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 9, 2025
The commercial services for the three trains will start on Monday, News18 has learnt.
Last week, News18 reported about the flagging off of these trains on Sunday, covering the abovementioned routes.
The Ajni-Pune Vande Bharat will take 12 hours—the longest for a chair car train in India. This will be an eight-coach train.
So far, to complete the nearly 900 km journey between Nagpur and Pune, Duronto Express is the fastest train on this route, taking nearly 13 hours.
The new Vande Bharat will start from Ajni station, about 3 km from Nagpur railway station, on the Delhi-Chennai line.
As of now, among the existing 72 Vande Bharat trains, the Delhi-Varanasi route covers the longest distance of over 750 km, while the Tatanagar-Brahmapur train has the longest travel time at nine hours and 25 minutes.
The chair car services have proved successful, boasting almost 100% occupancy across 144 routes nationwide. Maharashtra alone has 22 such services. Nagpur is connected to Secunderabad, Bilaspur, and Indore via Vande Bharat trains, while Pune operates trains to Hubballi and Kolhapur.
The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-Amritsar Vande Bharat will cover the journey in five hours and 40 minutes. The chair car fare will be Rs 1,005 and the executive class fare Rs 1,890.
On its way back, the journey from Amritsar will take five hours and 35 minutes, costing Rs 1,170 for the chair car and Rs 2,085 for the executive class.
The train will cover Amritsar, Beas, Jalandhar City, Pathankot Cantt, and Jammu Tawi before reaching its final destination, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra.
The Bengaluru-Belagavi journey will cost Rs 2,905 for the executive class and Rs 1,575 for the chair car. It will be completed in eight hours and 20 minutes.
The return journey from Belagavi will take eight hours and 30 minutes. The cost for a chair car ticket will be Rs 1,630 and Rs 2,955 for the executive class.
The SBC Vande Bharat (26751) will cover Dharwar, SSS Hubballi Junction, SMM Haveri, Davangere, Tumakuru, and Yesvantpur Junction between Belagavi and KSR Bengaluru.
The first Vande Bharat train was inaugurated in 2019. While the government had planned to inaugurate 75 Vande Bharat trains during the 75 weeks of the Amrit Mahotsav by August 15, 2024, the ministry achieved the milestone before August 15, 2025.
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