Over 96% of seats booked on Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat train’s maiden commercial run: Western Railways
The Hindu
The Vande Bharat train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Gandhinagar on Friday morning
More than 96% of seats of the Vande Bharat Express were booked during its first commercial run between Mumbai and Gandhinagar stations on Saturday, a Western Railway (WR) official said.
The train was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Gandhinagar on Friday morning. He also travelled on it from Gandhinagar to Kalupur station in Ahmedabad.
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The booking for the new train had opened on Thursday.
WR chief Public Relations Officer (PRO) Sumit Thakur said of the total of 1,123 seats on the Vande Bharat train, 1,086 seats were booked between Mumbai and Gandhinagar stations, which means 96.70% of seats were booked.
All the seats in the executive chair car and 96.37% of the seats in the chair car of the train were booked during the maiden ride between Mumbai and Gandhinagar, he said.
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