IR to roll out nine new Vande Bharat

Indian Railways (IR) has launched nine Vande Bharat trains for various destinations on September 24, 2023. This is a record launch in a single day. The news trains will operate on Udaipur – Jaipur, Tirunelveli-Madurai – Chennai, Hyderabad – Bengaluru, Vijayawada – Chennai (via Renigunta), Patna – Howrah, Kasaragod – Thiruvananthapuram, Rourkela – Bhubaneswar – Puri, Ranchi – Howrah, Jamnagar – Ahmedabad routes. There were already 25 Vande Bharat Express trains running across the country, and the count has now increase to 34 after the addition of nine more routes. The new Vande Bharat trains are being launched after nearly two months since flagging off the Gorakhpur-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express and Jodhpur-Sabarmati Vande Bharat Express on July 7, 2023.