Vande Bharat Express

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Vande Bharat Express is a medium to long-distance semi-high speed express train service operated by the Indian Railways. It is a reserved, air-conditioned chair car service connecting cities that are less than 800 km (500 mi) apart or take less than ten hours to travel with existing services. The first commercial service of Vande Bharat was officially inaugurated on 15 February 2019 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The trainsets are self-propelling electric multiple units (EMUs) in eight, sixteen or twenty coach configurations. They were introduced as part of the Make in India initiative by the Indian government, and are designed and manufactured by the state-owned Integral Coach Factory in Chennai. Introduced in 2018, the trainsets achieved speeds up to 183 km/h (114 mph) during trial runs. However, the maximum operational speed is restricted to 160 km/h (99 mph), which is achieved by the Rani Kamalapati–Hazrat Nizamuddin and Hazrat Nizamuddin-Khajuraho services on the Tughlakabad–Agra...

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