Classic route
Bhopal Vande Bharat
New Delhi → Bhopal · India
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Bhopal Vande Bharat?
The Bhopal Vande Bharat runs 702 km from New Delhi to Bhopal.
How long does the Bhopal Vande Bharat take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 7 h 30 min for the 702 km. That is an average of 94 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Bhopal Vande Bharat?
Indian Railways, with Vande Bharat EMU.
How old is the Bhopal Vande Bharat?
The line has been in service since 2023. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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