{"id":1032,"date":"2026-11-07T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/?post_type=noviq_note&#038;p=1032"},"modified":"2026-11-07T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:34:37","slug":"vande-bharat-trains","status":"publish","type":"noviq_note","link":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/notes\/vande-bharat-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Vande Bharat trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Vande Bharat is<\/h2>\n<p>Vande Bharat is a self-propelled train set: the motors are spread under the coaches, so there is no separate locomotive. This lets it speed up and slow down faster than a loco-hauled train, which cuts journey time on routes with many curves and stops. The first rakes were built at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai.<\/p>\n<h2>Versions<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Version<\/th>\n<th>Key point<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Vande Bharat Express<\/td>\n<td>First run 15 February 2019; designed for 160 kmph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vande Bharat 2.0<\/td>\n<td>First run 30 September 2022 on Gandhinagar-Mumbai Central; designed for 180 kmph, operated up to 160 kmph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vande Bharat 3.0<\/td>\n<td>Reaches 100 kmph from standstill in about 52 seconds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vande Bharat Sleeper<\/td>\n<td>16 AC coaches, about 823 passengers; trials touched 180 kmph on Kota-Nagda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Network today<\/h2>\n<p>By December 2025, Vande Bharat services covered 274 districts and had carried more than 7.5 crore passengers. In July 2026, PIB reported 162 chair car services running as 81 pairs, plus sleeper services. The same release lists six chair car pairs that serve Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<h2>The sleeper train<\/h2>\n<p>The first Vande Bharat Sleeper, Howrah-Kamakhya (27575\/27576), began regular running on 22 January 2026. PIB estimated the trip at about 14 hours against about 17 hours for the Saraighat Express. See the In the news section below for newer sleeper routes.<\/p>\n<h2>Targets<\/h2>\n<p>The Railways plan about 800 Vande Bharat trainsets by 2030 and about 4,500 by 2047, depending on infrastructure and manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vande Bharat chair car and sleeper trains: first run, versions, speeds, number of services and fleet targets, from PIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,14,13],"noviq_topic":[38],"class_list":["post-1032","noviq_note","type-noviq_note","status-publish","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-rrb","tag-ssc","tag-upsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noviq_note"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_note\/1032\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"noviq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoviq.cloud\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noviq_topic?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}