Madurai Junction–SMVT Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express

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(TBC after commercial run)

The Madurai Junction - SMVT Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express is India's upcoming Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the Temple city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu with the Silicon City of Bangalore in Karnataka. This express train was slated to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through video conferencing from Chennai Central on June 20, 2024,^[1][2] but has been postponed due to administrative reasons. The new date for the inauguration of this express train will be informed later.^[3]

The trial run for this express has been scheduled to take place on June 17 2024, where it will depart from Madurai in the morning and terminate at SMVT Bengaluru in the afternoon. This trainset will depart from SMVT Bengaluru post noon and will reach Madurai in the night.^[4]

Overview

This train will be operated by Indian Railways, connecting Madurai Junction and SMVT Bengaluru. It will be operated on 6 days a week basis.^[5][6][7]

Rakes

It will be the upcoming 2nd Generation Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train which will be designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India Initiative.^[8]

Service

The Madurai Junction - SMVT Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express will operate 6 days a week, covering a distance of 527 km (327 mi) in a travel time of 08 hrs with average speed of 78 km/h.^[9] The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be confirmed after commercial run.

See also

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Madurai Junction railway station
• Sir M. Visvesvaraya Terminal

References

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon^
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

East Central Railway

• Patna Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Ranchi Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Gomti Nagar (Lucknow)^

East Coast Railway

• Visakhapatnam Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.
• Puri ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Bhubaneswar ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ New Jalpaiguri Jn.

North Eastern Railway

• Gorakhpur Jn ⇔ Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn^
• Lucknow Jn ⇔ Dehradun Terminal^

Northeast Frontier Railway

• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Guwahati^
• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

Northern Railway

• Amritsar Jn. ⇔ Delhi Jn.^
• Anand Vihar Terminal ⇔ Ayodhya Cantonment Jn.^
• New Delhi ⇔ Amb Andaura
• Dehradun ⇔ Anand Vihar Terminal^
• New Delhi ⇔ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
• New Delhi ⇔ Varanasi Jn.
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ New Delhi
• SMVD Katra ⇔ New Delhi
• Hazrat Nizamuddin ⇔ Khajuraho Jn.^

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.^
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.^

South Central Railway

• Jalna ⇔ Mumbai CSMT^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Tirupati
• Kacheguda ⇔ Yesvantpur Jn.^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.^

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad^
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central^

Southern Railway

• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Tirunelveli Jn.^
• Coimbatore Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Alappuzha)^
• Kasaragod ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Kottayam)
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Madgaon Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Coimbatore Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Mysuru Jn.
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Vijayawada Jn.^
• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Nagercoil Jn.^
• Madurai Jn. ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

West Central Railway

• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Hazrat Nizamuddin
• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Rewa^

Western Railway

• Mumbai Central ⇔ Gandhinagar Capital
• Indore Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Ahmedabad ⇔ Okha^
• Ahmedabad Jn. ⇔ Mumbai Central

^ indicates 8 coach trainset (standard: 16 coach trainset)