Classic route
Bhopal Vande Bharat
New Delhi → Bhopal · India
Bhopal Vande Bharat in pictures
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- Distance
- 702 km
- Fastest time
- 7 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 94 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- Vande Bharat EMU
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
India’s fastest timetabled train: a home-built Vande Bharat touching 160 km/h past Agra and Gwalior, capital to Bhopal in seven and a half hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9097192 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Indian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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