New Jalpaiguri-Howrah Vande  Bharat running with 100% use

Maligaon, February 23 (MExN): Vande Bharat Express running on New Jalpaiguri-Howrah route halts at Bolpur (Shantiniketan), Malda Town and Barsoi Jn stations. The train bring down travel time between Kolkata and New Jalpaiguri, the gateway to the Northeast considerably. This train, acting as a faster means of transport has a very good patronization with average occupancy of 100% till date since beginning of its regular run, Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relations Officer, NFR stated in a press release. 

The indigenously built Vande Bharat Express was introduced four years back as an icon of Atmanirbhar Bharat. So far, 10 Vande Bharat Express trains are running all over Indian Railways connecting different cities through high speed route. The first Vande Bharat Express train ran between New Delhi and Varanasi on February 15, 2019. The 7th Vande Bharat Express train in this series is between Howrah & New Jalpaiguri, which was introduced by Prime Minister on December 30, 2022. NF Railway has also planned for other services of Vande Bharat from Guwahati which will be running in the zone in near future, it stated.