Ahead of flagging off by PM Modi, fares of Solapur, Shirdi Vande Bharat trains announced

Ahead of the flagging off of the Vande Bharat Express services on the MumbaiSolapur and MumbaiSainagar Shirdi routes in Maharashtra on Friday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Central Railway announced the fare structureThe oneway fare without catering service on the CSMTSolapur Vande Bharat train will be Rs 1000 for chair car and Rs 2015 for executive chair car while the fares for the two classes with catering will be Rs 1300 and Rs 2365 respectively a CR official saidThe oneway journey ticket without catering service for CSMT to Sainagar Shirdi will be Rs 840 and Rs 1670 for chair car and executive chair car respectively while the ticket prices with catering service will be Rs 975 and Rs 1840 respectively he addedThe MumbaiSolapur Vande Bharat Express will cover the 455 kilometre distance between the countrys commercial capital and the premier textile city in 6 hours and 30 minutesIt will improve connectivity between the two cities and also facilitate travel to important pilgrimage centres like Siddheshwar in Solapur Akkalkot Tuljapur Pandharpur near Solapur and Alandi in Pune districtAlso Read Herersquos all you need to know about Maharashtrarsquos two new Vande Bharat ExpressThe MumbaiSainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat Express will take 5 hours and 25 minutes to cover the 343 kilometre journey to one of the Indias most patronised temple towns and other pilgrimage centres in Nashik Trimbakeshwar and Shani Singanapur reducing the current time by around two hoursWhile existing superfast trains take 7 hours 55 minutes to cover the MumbaiSolapur route the Vande Bharat service will complete it in 6andhalf hours with halts at Dadar Kalyan Pune and Kurduwadi stationsThe CSMTSolapur Vande Bharat Express will depart from CSMT at 405 pm and reach Solapur at 1040 pm while it will depart from Solapur it at 605 am and reach CSMT at 1235 pm It wont run on Wednesday from CSMT and on Thursday from SolapurThe CSMTSainagar Shirdi service which will be the 10th Vande Bharat train in the country will run six days a week except Tuesday CR officials saidMaharashtra will have four Vande Bharat trains including two interstate and two intrastate services the CR official saidThe Vande Bharat rakes built in Integral Coach Factory near Chennai arrived in the city on February 2 and 6 and then underwent trials in Bhor Ghat Khandala Ghat between Karjat and Lonavala as well as Thal Ghat Kadara Ghat between Kasara and Igatpuri to test its capability to travel on the steep gradient on both routesThe trials were successful and the two semi highspeed trainsets managed to travel without bankers additional locomotives deployed as support to push trains on the incline officials addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever