Classic route
Vande Bharat Express
Chennai → Mysuru · India
- Distance
- 497 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 76 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- Vande Bharat · Train 18
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 2022
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
South India’s first Vande Bharat (India’s 5th), linking Chennai, Bengaluru’s tech hub and the palace city of Mysuru.
How this line was checked
- The 139 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11224515 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 19 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- 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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