PM Modi flags-off Mumbai-Shirdi, Mumbai-Solapur Vande Bharat Express
He also said the trains will also help students going to college and employees going to the office and it will also benefit farmers & devotees.
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Mumbai, February 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off Mumbai-Solapur Vande Bharat Express in the presence of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
He also inaugurated several development projects in Mumbai. PM Modi said this is for the first time that two Vande Bharat trains have been launched. He said the trains will help in connecting financial centres like Mumbai & Pune to centres of devotion.
He also said the trains will also help students going to college and employees going to the office and it will also benefit farmers & devotees.
This is one of the two latest Vande Bharat train routes, which enhances the connectivity between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Solapur. This advanced high-speed train will connect the commercial capital to the city of textiles in Maharashtra.
The train will provide faster connectivity to pilgrimage centres like Siddheshwar in Solapur, Akkalkot, Tuljapur, Pandharpur near Solapur and Alandi near Pune. While the existing superfast train takes 7 hours and 55 minutes, the Vande Bharat will take 6 hours and 30 minutes, saving 1 hour and 30 minutes of travel time.
The Mumbai-Solapur train is the ninth Vande Bharat train that was launched today.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw called the gift of two Vande Bharat together, that too being flagged off from historic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. He said the work has begun to make this an International level terminus.
Vande Bharat trains have already been running between Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Shri Vaishno Devi Mata Katra, Gandhinagar-Mumbai, New Delhi-Amb Andaura, Chennai-Mysuru, and Nagpur-Bilaspur.
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