Bengaluru-Mumbai Vande Bharat sleeper train gets railways’ nod; full schedule soon

BENGALURU: Train question betwixt Bengaluru and Mumbai is expected to beryllium accelerated and much comfortable, with Indian Railways approving Vande Bharat sleeper service. The route, stops, question clip and motorboat day volition beryllium announced soon, sources said. Railway curate Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Bangalore Central MP PC Mohan successful a missive astir the support for the caller sleeper train. TOI reported connected Jan 6 that the Railways was actively considering this proposal. Udyan Express, introduced successful 1983, is the main obstruction nexus betwixt Mumbai and Bengaluru. Despite transition of clip and tech upgrades, it inactive operates connected comparatively dilatory tracks, taking much than 22 hours to screen the 1,139-km distance.

Journey by autobus takes astir 16 hours. Sources said the planned caller Vande Bharat work won't regenerate Udyan Express.‘VB work should purpose for 16-17 hr question time’Sources successful Central Railway told TOI the caller bid Vande Bharat work is apt to tally via Pune, Solapur, Kalaburagi, Raichur and Guntakal, the way taken by Udyan Express. Vande Bharat is already operational betwixt Mumbai and Solapur. There volition beryllium nary method constraints to tally a sleeper service, sources added.

Mohan told TOI radical travelling betwixt the 2 cities had, for long, been demanding a faster and much convenient bid service. Welcoming the announcement, galore commuters person enquired astir stops and whether the bid volition tally via Kalaburagi oregon Hubballi. Trade activistic Sajjan Raj Mehta said, “It’s a invited move. In the lack of a superfast train, galore travellers person to trust connected buses oregon costly aerial travel. Bus journeys instrumentality 14-15 hours. The caller bid work should purpose to support question clip wrong 16 to 17 hours for the larger payment of passengers.”