Vande Bharat Express trains: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to launch new set of Vande Bharat Express trains on February 10. The new Vande Bharat Express trains will likely be flagged off in Mumbai, from where it will travel to its destinations Pune and Solapur in Maharashtra.

New Vande Bharat Express trains route: Mumbai-Pune-Solapur

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The new Vande Bharat Express trains will run on the Mumbai-Pune-Solapur route.

The train will depart from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) station in Mumbai and travel to Solapur via Pune. It will hardly take 1 hour and 50 minutes to reach Pune from Mumbai.

The train has been manufactured at the Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory. These trains will be fitted with parking brakes, following which they will undergo trials in the hilly ghat section on the outskirts of Mumbai to check whether they need the deployment of additional locomotives to cross this terrain. 

Bankers are used for pushing trains in ghat sections, besides avoiding incidents of train rollback in case of the parting of coaches. But the process of attaching and detaching bankers takes at least a few minutes, increasing travel time due to technical halts, an official explained.

To do away with bankers in ghat sections, both Vande Bharat Express trains will be fitted with parking brakes which will stop the train from rolling down on a gradient, the official said.

Having a gradient of 1:37 that means for every 37-metre run there is a rise of 1 metre. Both Bhor and Thal ghats are among the toughest railway ghat sections in the county, according to the officials.

The nearly 25-km-long Bhor ghat (also called Khandala ghat) is spread between Karjat and Khandala stations, while the 14-km-long Thal ghat (also known as Kasara ghat) is spread between Kasara and Igatpuri sections. Both the ghats have multiple tunnels and high via ducts.

Vande Bharat Safety Features
 
Vande Bharat train has modern amenities and superior comfort. The train has reclining seats, automatic fire sensors, CCTV cameras, on-demand content and Wifi facility, three-hour power backup and GPS systems for the comfort of passengers.

State-of-the-art safety features like Kavach technology have been added to ensure the proper safety of the passengers.

Vande Bharat Express trains consist of executive coaches with reclining seats in all classes, with the added facility of 180-degree rotating seats.