Indian Railways’ 16th Vande Bharat Express has witnessed spontaneous response from rail passengers since its inception. The semi-high speed train operates between Secunderabad and Tirupati. It was launched on April 08, 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This is the second semi-high speed train for the two Telugu-speaking states and also for the South Central Railway (SCR) zone. During its introduction, the new age train was launched with eight coaches. However, after seeing the huge response from commuters, the railways doubled the number of coaches in the train on May 17.
With this, the seating capacity of the train has also increased from 530 to 1128 seats (104 seats in Executive Class and 1024 seats in AC Chair Car).
