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Vande Bharat will not operate on Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor: Railway Minister

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Published on: Sep 20, 2025 09:19 PM IST

Vande Bharat will not operate on Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor: Railway Minister

Mumbai, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday that the upcoming 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor will not be used to operate Vande Bharat trains.

Vande Bharat will not operate on Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor: Railway Minister

While talking to mediapersons in Thane on the occasion of the breakthrough of a portion of 21-km long tunnel for high-speed corridor, Vaishnaw said that bullet train and Vande Bharat trains operate on two different platforms.

Vaishnaw's statement dismissed media reports which earlier said that the Vande Bharat train with 250 kmph running capacity which the Bharat Earth Movers Limited has been asked to develop will run on Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor.

In September 2024, the Ministry asked BEML to develop the first high-speed Vande Bharat train indigenously.

Since then experts and a section of media speculated that the train will be made to run on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor as there is no other section across the rail network in the country whose track and signalling system support a high speed train with 250 kmph running capacity.

"I have asked the team to formulate a standard document so that people residing in the tunnel vicinity should have a clear knowledge of those precautions during house construction," the Railway Minister stated.

He added, "The standard document will be given to the state governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat to get their approval."

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