Railways set to introduce two more types of Vande trains

NEW DELHI: The Railways is going to introduce two types of Vande Bharat trains to cater to the need of intracity and intercity passengers. While the Vande Rapid Metro with eight coaches each would be operated for intracity passengers on lines of Mumbai local service, Vande Metro Regional trains with 12 coaches each would be deployed between cities for faster passenger transport.

These trains will be fully air-conditioned. Frequencies of both services would depend on the traffic demand. Recently, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said the Vande Metro shuttle-type trains will be introduced on a stretch of 100km between two cities and these will run at every 30 to 45 minutes on the European model.