Vande Bharat Express will start operating between Dehradun and Lucknow from March 12. This train will stop at only seven railway stations between Dehradun and Lucknow. The train will run six days a week. Northern Railway has given instructions to prepare for the operation of the train. Now the journey from Dehradun to Lucknow will be completed in just a few hours.
The Vande Bharat (lit. 'Praise India') trainset, formerly known as Train 18, is an Indian Electric multiple unit chair car trainset designed and developed by Indian Railways at its Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. The train achieved a maximum speed of 183 km/h (114 mph) during its trial runs but the operational speed of the train is restricted to 160 km/h (99 mph) due to tracks' inability to support such speeds.