Vande Bharat train: Vande Bharat will depart from Meerut City Railway Station at 6:35 am and from Varanasi at 9:10 am. Passengers will be able to visit Kashi Vishwanath along with Ramlala in Ayodhya.
Vande Bharat train: From Wednesday, railway passengers will travel from Meerut to Varanasi in the Vande Bharat train. Passengers will now be able to visit other pilgrimage places including Kashi Vishwanath along with Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. The Vande Bharat train (number 22490) will depart from Meerut City Railway Station at 6:35 am on Wednesday and will reach Varanasi at 6:25 pm. The departure time of Vande Bharat (train no. 22489) from Varanasi to Meerut has been fixed at 9:10 am. On the very first day, 277 passengers made bookings to go to Varanasi.
After Meerut, the Vande Bharat train will stop at Hapur, Moradabad, Bareilly, Lucknow, Ayodhya and Varanasi Junction. The journey from Meerut to Varanasi will be 783 km. Earlier, this train used to run only from Meerut to Lucknow. There was a long standing demand to extend it to Varanasi and stop at Hapur Junction.
Railways started stopping Vande Bharat train at Hapur on 27 July last month. As per the earlier announcement, the train is now being run from Meerut to Varanasi. The train has 440 seats in the chair car and 52 seats in the executive class. This train will run six days a week from both sides except Tuesday.
Let us tell you that the number of people going from Meerut to Ayodhya and Varanasi is very high. A week ago, people had started booking seats in the AC chair car and executive class of Vande Bharat train. In the Vande Bharat train, 250 people had booked seats in the SC chair car and 27 in the executive class. It is believed that the number of passengers will increase further in the coming time.
This will be the schedule of operations from Meerut
Station Time
Meerut City Station 6:35 am
Hapur 7:10 am
Moradabad 8:35 am
Bareilly 10:04 am
Lucknow 01:45 pm
Ayodhya 3:53 pm
Varanasi Junction 6.25 pm
This will be the schedule of operations from Varanasi
Station Time
Varanasi Station 09.10 am
Ayodhya 11.40 am
Lucknow 01.40 pm
Bareilly 05.13 pm
Moradabad 6.50 pm
Hapur 8.10 pm
Meerut 9.05 pm
Seat wise fare (including catering charges)
– Meerut to Varanasi AC Chair Car Rs. 1915
– Meerut to Varanasi Executive Class Rs. 3525
– Meerut to Ayodhya AC Chair Car Rs. 1605
– Meerut to Ayodhya Executive Class Rs. 2900
– Meerut to Lucknow AC Chair Car Rs. 1365
– Meerut to Lucknow Executive Class Rs. 2425
