Howrah–Bhagalpur Vande Bharat Express

Howrah Junction – Bhagalpur Junction Vande Bharat Express
Overview
Service type	Vande Bharat Express
Locale	West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar
First service	15 September 2024 (15 September 2024) (Inaugural) 17 September 2024; 4 days ago (17 September 2024) (Commercial)
Current operator(s)	Eastern Railways (ER)
Route
Termini	Howrah Junction (HWH) Bhagalpur Junction (BGP)
Stops	07
Distance travelled	386 km (240 mi)
Average journey time	06 hrs 20 mins
Service frequency	Six days a week [a]
Train number(s)	22309 / 22310
Line(s) used	Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line (till Rampurhat Jn.) Rampurhat–Dumka–Jasidih line (till Dumka) Dumka–Bhagalpur line
On-board services
Class(es)	AC Chair Car, AC Executive Chair Car
Seating arrangements	Legend 22309 ↓ Howrah Junction Bolpur Shantiniketan Rampurhat Junction West Bengal Jharkhand border Dumka Nonihat Bhaturia Hansdiha Jharkhand Bihar border Mandar Hill Barahat Junction 22310 ↑ Bhagalpur Junction

The 22309/22310 Howrah - Bhagalpur Vande Bharat Express is India's 60th Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the metropolitan capital city of Kolkata in West Bengal with the Silk City Bhagalpur in Bihar.^[1]

This express train was inaugurated on September 15 2024,^[2] by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from the capital city of Ranchi instead of physically inaugurating at Tatanagar Junction in Jharkhand due to continuous rains in Jamshedpur.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

This train is currently operated by Indian Railways, connecting Howrah Jn, Bolpur Shantiniketan, Rampurhat Jn, Dumka, Nonihat Bhaturia, Hansdiha, Mandar Hill, Barahat Junction and Bhagalpur Jn.^[11][12][13] It currently operates with train numbers 22309/22310 on 6 days a week basis.

It is the fifty-seventh 2nd Generation and fortieth Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train which was designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India Initiative.^[14]

The 22309/22310 Howrah - Bhagalpur Vande Bharat Express currently operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 386 km (240 mi) in a travel time of 06 hrs 20 mins with average speed of 61 km/h. The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be confirmed after commercial run.

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatiman Express
• Howrah Junction railway station
• Bhagalpur Junction railway station

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon☆
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru☆
• SCSMT Kolhapur ⇔ Pune Jn.☆
• Nagpur Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.★

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.
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Gaya Jn.
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Bhagalpur Jn.☆

North Central Railway

• Agra Cantonment ⇔ Banaras☆

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.☆
• Meerut City Jn. ⇔ Lucknow Charbagh☆
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ Deoghar Jn.☆

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)☆
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.☆
• Udaipur City ⇔ Agra Cantonment☆

South Central Railway

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

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.☆
• Durg Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.☆
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.☆
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Rourkela Jn.☆
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Brahmapur☆
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.☆

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad☆
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central☆
• SSS Hubballi Jn. ⇔ Pune Jn.☆

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. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment☆

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 | ★ indicates 20 coach trainset