Mumbai will get its first Amrit Bharat Express train, country's third such train after the Darbhanga-Anand Vihar and Malda Town-SMVT Bengaluru (Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal), on Thursday. Pics/via Rajendra B. Aklekar
Updated On: 2025-04-21 05:20 PM IST
Compiled by : Anushree Gaikwad
The Amrit Bharat Express—a push-pull trainset with locomotives on either side
The Amrit Bharat Express is a class of superfast, non-air-conditioned, low-cost, sleeper-cum unreserved services connecting cities that are more than 800 km apart
It has a maximum operating speed of 110 to 130 kmph and the trainset provides improved facilities for better-designed seats and luggage racks for increasing volume, mobile charging points with mobile holders, LED lights, CCTV, a public information system and is a vestibule train
The trainsets are manufactured by Integral Coach Factory in Chennai and the production of 200 more such trains is in progress, with 50 under construction and 150 more planned
The Amrit Bharat train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations
With two locomotives attached on either side, the train cuts down the time of reversal as it can move in either direction
This is the country’s third Amrit Bharat train
The train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations
