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IN PHOTOS: Mumbai`s first Amrit Bharat Express train

Updated On: 21 April, 2025 05:20 PM IST | Anushree Gaikwad

Mumbai will get its first Amrit Bharat Express train, country`s third such train after the Darbhanga-Anand Vihar and Malda Town-SMVT Bengaluru (Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal), on Thursday. Pics/via Rajendra B. Aklekar

Mumbai will get its first Amrit Bharat Express train, country`s third such train after the Darbhanga-Anand Vihar and Malda Town-SMVT Bengaluru (Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal), on Thursday. Pics/via Rajendra B. Aklekar

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Mumbai will get its first Amrit Bharat Express train, country`s third such train after the Darbhanga-Anand Vihar and Malda Town-SMVT Bengaluru (Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal), on Thursday. Pics/via Rajendra B. Aklekar
<p>The Amrit Bharat Express&mdash;a push-pull trainset with locomotives on either side</p>

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The Amrit Bharat Express—a push-pull trainset with locomotives on either side

<p>The Amrit Bharat Express is a class of superfast, non-air-conditioned, low-cost, sleeper-cum unreserved services connecting cities that are more than 800 km apart</p>

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The Amrit Bharat Express is a class of superfast, non-air-conditioned, low-cost, sleeper-cum unreserved services connecting cities that are more than 800 km apart

<p>It has a maximum operating speed of 110 to 130 kmph and the trainset provides improved facilities for better-designed seats and luggage racks for increasing volume, mobile charging points with mobile holders, LED lights, CCTV, a public information system and is a vestibule train</p>

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It has a maximum operating speed of 110 to 130 kmph and the trainset provides improved facilities for better-designed seats and luggage racks for increasing volume, mobile charging points with mobile holders, LED lights, CCTV, a public information system and is a vestibule train

<p>The trainsets are manufactured by Integral Coach Factory in Chennai and the production of 200 more such trains is in progress, with 50 under construction and 150 more planned</p>

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The trainsets are manufactured by Integral Coach Factory in Chennai and the production of 200 more such trains is in progress, with 50 under construction and 150 more planned

<p>The Amrit Bharat train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations</p>

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The Amrit Bharat train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations

<p>With two locomotives attached on either side, the train cuts down the time of reversal as it can move in either direction</p>

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With two locomotives attached on either side, the train cuts down the time of reversal as it can move in either direction

<p>This is the country&rsquo;s third Amrit Bharat train</p>

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This is the country’s third Amrit Bharat train

<p>The train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations</p>

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The train will operate via Samastipur, Muzaffarpur, Danapur, Buxar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (formerly Mughalsarai) stations

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