PM Modi in Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off two new Vande Bharat trains in Mumbai on Friday. The new semi-high speed trains will run on the Mumbai-Pune-Solapur and Mumbai-Nashik Road-Sainagar Shirdi routes.
These will be the 9th and 10th Vande Bharat trains to be put into service before carrying passengers.
The new Vande Bharat trains will pass through the steep Western Ghats. In these routes, typically, an extra locomotive called a banker is attached to regular trains to push them during the steepest stretches.
However, Vande Bharat trains will not use bankers as it smoothly passed through the Western Ghats during the trial run. Instead, they would have parking brakes that would prevent the train from rolling down the gradient.
“Tomorrow, February 10 is a special day for Maharashtra, especially for improving connectivity. Mumbai-Solapur and Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat trains will be flagged off. Santacruz Chembur Link Road and Kurar Underpass also dedicated to the nation Will be done.” PM Modi said.
Railways has plans to introduce 75 new Vande Bharat trains by August 2023.
Apart from Vande Bharat Express, Indian Railways is also going to start Vande Metro train.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said, “We are also developing Vande Metro… Around big cities, there are big settlements from where people would like to come to the big city for work or leisure and go back to their homes.”
“For that, we are coming up with Vande Bharat equivalent Vande Metro. The design and production will be completed this year, and in the next financial year, the production of the train will be ramped up. These will be like rapid shuttles for passengers Like experience,” Vaishnav said.
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