Of the three Vande Bharat Express trains plying on its network, the Solapur-CSMT (Mumbai) train has had the highest occupancy in May, the Central Railway (CR) said on Friday.
The other two semi-high speed Vande Bharat trains operated by the CR ply on Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi and Nagpur-Bilaspur routes.
The Solapur-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Vande Bharat Express registered top occupancy of 125.23 percent, followed by CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat Express at 119.45 per cent this month, it said in a release.
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The Bilaspur-Nagpur and Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Express trains registered 97.92 percent and 95.08 percent occupancy, respectively.
CSMT-Sainagar and Sainagar-CSMT Vande Bharat trains recorded 93 percent and 84 percent occupancy, respectively.
All three trains received “overwhelming response” in May 2023, the CR claimed.
CSMT-Solapur and CSMT-Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat trains were launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 10 this year. Before that, he had flagged off Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Express on December 11, 2022.
Vande Bharat Express trains have been indigenously designed and can reach a maximum speed of 160 kmph.
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