{"id":645531,"date":"2025-09-10T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645531"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:53:23","slug":"delhi-and-patna-in-just-11-5-hours-indian-railways-vande-bharat-sleeper-express-to-start-before-diwali-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-and-patna-in-just-11-5-hours-indian-railways-vande-bharat-sleeper-express-to-start-before-diwali-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi and Patna in just 11.5 hours: Indian Railways\u2019 Vande Bharat Sleeper Express to start before Diwali 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vande Bharat Sleeper Train: The Indian Railways is reportedly set to introduce the country\u2019s first Vande Bharat Sleeper Express, offering passengers a more comfortable travel experience. The train is expected to connect New Delhi and Patna via Prayagraj in just 11.5 hours, significantly reducing the usual travel time of 12 to 17 hours. The service is reportedly scheduled to begin ahead of Diwali 2025, CNBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vande Bharat Sleeper Train: The Indian Railways is reportedly set to introduce the country\u2019s first Vande Bharat Sleeper Express, offering passengers a more comfortable travel experience. The train is expected to connect New Delhi and Patna via Prayagraj in just 11.5 hours, significantly reducing the usual travel time of 12 to 17 hours. The service is reportedly scheduled to begin ahead of Diwali 2025, CNBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}