{"id":645841,"date":"2025-09-12T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645841"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:47:51","slug":"at-160-kmph-namo-bharat-becomes-indias-fastest-train-connecting-delhi-to-meerut-in-under-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-160-kmph-namo-bharat-becomes-indias-fastest-train-connecting-delhi-to-meerut-in-under-60-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"At 160 kmph, Namo Bharat becomes India\u2019s fastest train, connecting Delhi to Meerut in under 60 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has a new speed champion on the rails. The Namo Bharat train, operating at a maximum speed of 160 km\/h on the 55-km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), has officially become the fastest train in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Until now, semi-high-speed trains like the Gatimaan Express and Vande Bharat held the top spot, both running at 160 km\/h on specific routes. However, following a June 2024 directive, their speed was capped at 130 km\/h. Namo Bharat, on the other hand, now touches 160 km\/h on select stretches, giving commuters a taste of true rapid transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has a new speed champion on the rails. The Namo Bharat train, operating at a maximum speed of 160 km\/h on the 55-km stretch of the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), has officially become the fastest train in the country. Until now, semi-high-speed trains like the Gatimaan Express and Vande Bharat held the top spot, both running at 160 km\/h on specific routes. However, following a June 2024 directive, their speed was capped at 130 km\/h. Namo Bharat, on the other hand, now touches 160 km\/h on select stretches, giving commuters a taste of true rapid transit.<\/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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645841","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=645841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}