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Modi flags off Vande Bharat Express
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Feb, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the indigenous Train
18, renamed Vande Bharat Express, from the New Delhi railway station to
his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in the backdrop of the terror attack
on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir which killed 45 troopers.
A
sombre Modi told a gathering at the station that he was "grateful to
designers and engineers behind Vande Bharat Express" which set off at
11.20 a.m.
The train will clock 160 km per hour -- the fastest on the Indian rail network.
The
Prime Minister said with "our sincerity and hard work in the last four
and half years, we have tried to improve the railways".
Earlier, Modi inspected the coaches and the engine cabin of the Vande Bharat Express along with senior railway officials.
The
flagging off was delayed by over 80 minutes as Modi presided over a
meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to discuss the terror
attack in Jammu and Kashmir.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, BJP
veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and members of the Railway Board were on
board the train on its inaugural journey.
Bookings on the Vande Bharat Express opened on Friday. All the seats of were booked within four hours.
The train, which will start replacing Shatabdi Express trains, will run between Delhi and Varanasi.
The train has been manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai.
The
gleaming blue-nosed train comes fitted with world class amenities on
board like high-speed on-board WiFi, GPS-based passenger information
system, touch-free bio-vacuum toilets, LED lighting, mobile charging
points and a climate control system that automatically adjusts the
temperature.
The 16-coach train will have two executive compartments with 52 seats each and trailer coaches with 78 seats each.
The executive class will have rotating seats to match the direction of the train.
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