Visakhapatnam-Durg Vande Bharat Express to Operate Via Odisha from Sept 20; Check Stoppages

Bhubaneswar: The newly inaugurated Visakhapatnam-Durg (Raipur) Vande Bharat Express, which will run via Odisha, will start its regular operation from September 20. This will be the sixth Vande Bharat to pass through the state.

It was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually from Ahmedabad on Monday evening.

This Vande Bharat train will cover the distance between Durg in Chhattisgarh and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh in eight hours in comparison to the current 11-hour journey time.

Whiel passing through Odisha, it will halt at at Khariar Road, Kantabanji, Titlagarh, Kesinga, and Rayagada stations.

On September 15, the PM flagged off Berhampur-Tatanagar Vande Bharat Express and Rourkela-Howrah Vande Bharat Express virtually from Ranchi.

Odisha’s first Vande Bharat Express train between Puri and Howrah was launched in May 2023. The second one between Puri–Rourkela was inaugurated in September 2023 and the third, connecting Visakhapatnam with Bhubaneswar, in March 2023.