Odisha Seeks More Vande Bharat Train Services After Howrah-Puri Trial Run
NDTV
A Railway official said the trial run of the train commenced from Howrah station in West Bengal at 6.10 am and it reached Puri in a little over six hours.
Amidst the successful trial run of the Vande Bharat express train on the Howrah-Puri route on Friday, the Odisha government demanded the introduction of more semi-high speed trains on Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Puri-Raipur and Puri-Howrah routes.
A Railway official said the trial run of the train commenced from Howrah station in West Bengal at 6.10 am and it reached Puri in a little over six hours.
The train will begin its return journey from Puri at 1.50 pm and reach Howrah at 8.30 pm.
During the trial run, it had stoppages at Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khurda with a two-minute halt at each station.
