MGR Chennai Central–Vijayawada Vande Bharat Express

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20677 ↓ MGR Chennai Central Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh border Renigunta Junction Nellore Ongole Tenali Junction 20678 ↑ Vijayawada Junction

The 20677/20678 MGR Chennai Central - Vijayawada Vande Bharat Express is India's 27th Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the city of Chennai city in Tamil Nadu with Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. This train was inaugurated on 24 September 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conference from New Delhi.^[1]

Overview

This train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting MGR Chennai Central, Renigunta Jn, Nellore, Ongole, Tenali Jn and Vijayawada Jn. It is currently operated with train numbers 20677/20678 on 6 days a week basis.

Rakes

It is the twenty-fifth 2nd Generation and thirteenth Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train^{[broken anchor]} which was designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India Initiative.^[2]

Service

The 20677/20678 MGR Chennai Central - Vijayawada Vande Bharat Express operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 514 km (319 mi) in a travel time of 6 hrs 40 mins with an average speed of 77 km/h (48 mph). The Maximum Permissible Speed is 130 km/h (81 mph).

See also

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Chennai Central railway station
• Vijayawada Junction railway station

Notes

References

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon^
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

East Central Railway

• Patna Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Ranchi Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Gomti Nagar (Lucknow)^

East Coast Railway

• Visakhapatnam Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.
• Puri ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Bhubaneswar ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ New Jalpaiguri Jn.

North Eastern Railway

• Gorakhpur Jn ⇔ Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn^
• Lucknow Jn ⇔ Dehradun Terminal^

Northeast Frontier Railway

• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Guwahati^
• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

Northern Railway

• Amritsar Jn. ⇔ Delhi Jn.^
• Anand Vihar Terminal ⇔ Ayodhya Cantonment Jn.^
• New Delhi ⇔ Amb Andaura
• Dehradun ⇔ Anand Vihar Terminal^
• New Delhi ⇔ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
• New Delhi ⇔ Varanasi Jn.
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ New Delhi
• SMVD Katra ⇔ New Delhi
• Hazrat Nizamuddin ⇔ Khajuraho Jn.^

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.^
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.^

South Central Railway

• Jalna ⇔ Mumbai CSMT^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Tirupati
• Kacheguda ⇔ Yesvantpur Jn.^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.^

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad^
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central^

Southern Railway

• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Tirunelveli Jn.^
• Coimbatore Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Alappuzha)^
• Kasaragod ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Kottayam)
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Madgaon Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Coimbatore Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Mysuru Jn.
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Vijayawada Jn.^
• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Nagercoil Jn.^
• Madurai Jn. ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

West Central Railway

• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Hazrat Nizamuddin
• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Rewa^

Western Railway

• Mumbai Central ⇔ Gandhinagar Capital
• Indore Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Ahmedabad ⇔ Okha^
• Ahmedabad Jn. ⇔ Mumbai Central

^ indicates 8 coach trainset (standard: 16 coach trainset)