The Indian Railways last week conducted the trial run of the Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express train, in its next step to provide a second such semi-high-speed train to the state of West Bengal. This train will ferry passengers between Bengal’s Howrah and Odisha’s Puri. This means that pilgrims and tourists flocking to Puri, the abode of Lord Jagannath, will find it easier to travel by means of the new Vande Bharat Express.
The train will halt at stations including Kharagpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, and Khurda. The trial run of the train was conducted on Friday around 6:10am. The train is expected to leave for Howrah in the early morning and then return to Puri around 12:35pm the same day. However, the date of the commencement of its services is yet to be finalised.
