India's 1st SAFFRON-coloured Vande Bharat Express flagged off along with other 8 trains

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off India's first Vande Bharat Express to wear an all-new Saffron-Grey livery, replacing the current blue-white paint scheme along with other 8 Vande Bharat Express trains.

 

The saffron-coloured train was one among nine Vande Bharat Express trains flagged off by PM Modi in one go, on September 24, 2023, as part of a mega launch drive by Indian Railways. This is Kerala's second Vande Bharat Express train and is scheduled to run between Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram Central.

  

 

PM Modi flagged off nine Vande Bharat trains connecting religious and tourist destinations across 11 states. He said the popularity of Vande Bharat trains is constantly rising and over 1,11,00,000 passengers have already travelled in them.

 

The prime minister noted that 25 Vande Bharat trains are running and now nine more have been added.

 

The new Vande Bharat trains flagged off by the PM will run between: Udaipur-Jaipur; Tirunelveli-Madurai-Chennai; Hyderabad-Bengaluru; Vijayawada-Chennai (via Renigunta); Patna-Howrah; Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram; Rourkela-Bhubaneswar -Puri; Ranchi-Howrah; and Jamnagar-Ahmedabad.

 

 

 

 

The Indian Railways will replace the white and blue livery of the Vande Bharat Express trains, which has been the colour of the trains since 2018 with new orange-grey livery. Various reports suggests that the action has been taken as the white colour is difficult to maintain. However, neither Indian Railways nor Ashwini Vaishnaw has confirmed this reason for the new paint scheme.

 

 

The Railway Minister said that this Saffron colour is inspired by the 'Tricolour'. The colour scheme has a larger spread on the train, giving it a more prominent appeal as compared to the current Vande Bharat Express trains, where a blue strip runs at the side of the train.

 

 

The Vande Bharat Express will be fitted with the indigenous Kavach anti collision system, which is designed to preventing trains from colliding with each other. KAVACH automatically activates the train’s braking system if the driver fails to control the train as per speed restrictions. According to authorities, the system is one of the most efficient, and cheapest safety systems globally, where the probability of error is one in 10000 years.