Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday took “a ride” on the popular Vande Bharat train of Indian Railways. While travelling from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram, she expressed happiness and praised the Ministry of Railways.
“Taking a ride on #VandeBharat from Kochi to Thiruvanathapuram. Vande Bharat was introduced by @PMOIndia @narendramodi in September 2022. It is after a year that I have the opportunity to travel in one of them. Being popular, the train runs fully booked. Well done @RailMinIndia,” she tweeted on X.
Presently, 34 Vande Bharat trains are running in the country. The first service commenced on 15 February 2019. The trainset was then known as Train 18. On 27 January 2019, it was named Vande Bharat Express.
Here is a list of Vande Bharat trains:
New Delhi–Varanasi Vande Bharat Express, New Delhi–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Vande Bharat Express, New Delhi–Amb Andaura Vande Bharat Express, Mumbai Central–Gandhinagar Capital Vande Bharat Express, MGR Chennai Central–Mysuru Vande Bharat Express, Bilaspur–Nagpur Vande Bharat Express, Visakhapatnam – Secunderabad Vande Bharat Express, Howrah – New Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Express, Mumbai CSMT–Solapur Vande Bharat Express, Mumbai CSMT–Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat Express, Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj)–Hazrat Nizamuddin Vande Bharat Express, Secunderabad–Tirupati Vande Bharat Express, Ajmer–Delhi Cantonment Vande Bharat Express, MGR Chennai Central–Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express, Kasaragod–Thiruvananthapuram Vande Bharat Express (via Kottayam), Howrah–Puri Vande Bharat Express, Dehradun–Anand Vihar Terminal Vande Bharat Express, New Jalpaiguri–Guwahati Vande Bharat Express, Mumbai CSMT–Madgaon Vande Bharat Express, Patna–Ranchi Vande Bharat Express, Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj)–Rewa Vande Bharat Express, KSR Bengaluru–Dharwad Vande Bharat Express, Indore–Nagpur Vande Bharat Express, Jodhpur – Sabarmati (Ahmedabad) Vande Bharat Express, Gorakhpur–Lucknow Charbagh Vande Bharat Express, Udaipur City–Jaipur Vande Bharat Express, MGR Chennai Central–Vijayawada Vande Bharat Express, Chennai Egmore–Tirunelveli Vande Bharat Express, Patna–Howrah Vande Bharat Express, Kacheguda–Yesvantpur Vande Bharat Express, Ranchi–Howrah Vande Bharat Express, Puri–Rourkela Vande Bharat Express, Ahmedabad–Jamnagar Vande Bharat Express and Kasaragod–Thiruvananthapuram Vande Bharat Express (via Alappuzha).