Close on the heels of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announcing introduction of a coastal Vande Bharat Express service, the Railway Ministry has proposed a service between Yesvantpur in Bengaluru and Madgaon in Goa via Mangaluru railway region.
According to the proposal, the service will skip Mangaluru Junction and Mangaluru Central stations, and will run via Padil. The running time in each direction would be about 13 hours.
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The South Western Railway (SWR), in a note, stated that if the VB has to run via Mangaluru Junction, running time has to be increased.
Two VB rakes would have to be deployed for the service, one each starting from Yesvantpur and Madgaon in the morning to reach their destinations in the evening.
