Goa-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express train to start today

MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the inaugural run of the Madgaon-CSMT Vande Bharat Express remotely from Bhopal on Tuesday.

The train will commence its journey from Madgaon, Goa, for CSMT, Mumbai, tentatively at 10.30am.
During the monsoon month, the train will run on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Mumbai and on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from Madgaon.

This will be fourth Vande Bharat to operate from Mumbai. Two of these runs on the Central Railway between CSMT-Sai Nagar Shirdi and CSMT-Pune-Solpur. The third train runs between Mumbai Central and Gandhinagar on Western Railway.

The 8-coach train has capacity to carry 530 passengers. While Tejas Express runs with 14 LHB coachesand has a capacity for 1,002.