Solapur-Mumbai Vande Bharat records highest occupancy in May: Central Railway

Of the three Vande Bharat Express trains running on its network, the Solapur-CSMT (Mumbai) train has had the highest occupancy in May, Central Railway (CR) said on Friday.

The other two semi-high-speed Vande Bharat trains operated by CR run on the Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi and Nagpur-Bilaspur routes.

The Solapur-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Vande Bharat Express recorded a peak occupancy of 125.23 percent, followed by CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat Express at 119.45 percent this month, it said in a statement.

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The Bilaspur-Nagpur and Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Express trains recorded 97.92 percent and 95.08 percent occupancy respectively.

The CSMT-Sainagar and Sainagar-CSMT Vande Bharat trains recorded 93 percent and 84 percent occupancy respectively.

All three trains received an “overwhelming response” in May 2023, CR claimed.

The CSMT-Solapur and CSMT-Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat trains were launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 10 this year. Before that, it had marked Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Express on December 11, 2022.

Vande Bharat Express trains have been indigenously designed and can reach a top speed of 160 km/h.

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