Modi to flag off Nagpur-Hyderabad Vande Bharat Express train

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off two more new Vande Bharat trains – one between Nagpur and Hyderabad for Telangana and another between Durg (Chhattisgarh) and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on September 16, said Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy on Friday. He thanked the Prime Minister and said the trains were a gift to the Telugu people on the occasion of the ongoing Vinayaka Chavithi festival. There are about four Vande Bharat train services from Secunderabad, and the new one will be the fifth. Altogether, Modi will be waving the green flag for 10 new trains, he said.

Vande Bharat from Nagpur will start at 5 a.m. and reach Hyderabad at



12.15 p.m. Inthe return direction, the train will start at 1 p.m. and reach Nagpur at 8.20 p.m. The 578 km journey will be completed in 7.15 hours. It will have halts at Kazipet, Ramagundam, Balharshah, Chandrapur and Sevagram stations. 

The second Vande Bharat train will start from Durg at 5.45 am and reach Visakhapatnam at 1.45 pm. In the return direction, the train leaves Visakhapatnam at 2.50 p.m. and reach Durg at 10.50 p.m. The 565 km distance will be covered in eight hours with halts at Raipur, Vizianagaram, Mahasamund, Rayagada, Khariar Road, Kousinga, Titlagarh, Kantabanji and Kesinga.