Indian Rail Road's video: High Speed Trial Run Mumbai - Ahmedabad - Mumbai India s Own Bullet Train Vande Bharat Express

HIgh Speed Mumbai - Ahmedabad - Mumbai Vande Bharat Trial Run. The iconic semi-high-speed Vande Bharat train, which has been finalised for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, will reach Mumbai on Friday. The railways will conduct the final trial, which is also known as the Time Table trial today between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The trial run will start from Ahmedabad in the morning at around 7 am. The train is expected to reach Mumbai around 1 pm and return to Ahmedabad. The trail will be monitored by senior railway officials , Research Designs & Standards Organisation, the technical wing of railway. The Vande Bharat Express, also known as Train 18, is an Indian semi-high-speed, intercity, EMU train[2] which is operated by the Indian Railways only on two prominent routes as of March 2022, one from New Delhi (NDLS) to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra (SVDK) and the other from New Delhi (NDLS) to Varanasi (BSB).It was designed and manufactured by Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur, Chennai under the Indian government's Make in India initiative, over a span of 18 months. The unit cost of the first rake was estimated at ₹100 crore (US$13 million), although it is expected to go down with subsequent production. At the original price, it is estimated to be 40% cheaper than a similar train imported from Europe.The train was launched on 15 February 2019, by which date a second unit will have been produced and readied for service.The service was named 'Vande Bharat Express' on 27 January 2019. Vande Bharat Express is designed to be capable of running at a maximum speed of 160 kmph that can be touched in only 140 seconds for commercial purpose and it exceeded 180kmph during testing,but the tracks on which the train operates are not capable of supporting such high speeds, hence the train is operated at a maximum speed of 130 km/h (81 mph) In this context, it can be said that the Gatimaan Express, the fastest train of India as per maximum permissible speed operates at 160 km/h (99 mph) and Habibganj–New Delhi Shatabdi Express, the second fastest train of India as per maximum permissible speed has maximum permissible speed of 150 kmph. India for a long period had plans to introduce a high-speed rail network to catch up with the rapidly growing world. But more than the speed and shortening travel time, the safety and cost were the primary concerns for the Indian railways.[14] Some of the railway experts said that India has lagged in the high-speed transit technology race because it was very expensive and the Indian Railways had to deal with safety and its ageing tracks first. However, the Indian railways aimed at increasing the then-existing maximum speed of 85 km/h (53 mph) to 150 km/h (93 mph) in the coming years. The Indian Railways went on to achieve the 99 miles per hour mark by the mid-2010s after the introduction of Gatimaan Express in 2016, which is still the fastest operating train to date.[15] The next logical step for Indian Railways was to build a modern higher-speed rail. When the Indian railways had floated a tender in June 2015, they found none of the bids to be viable and hence decided to move ahead to build it completely in India. In early 2017, it was planned that the indigenous engine-less (EMU) semi-high-speed train, with modern facilities onboard would run at a speed of 160 km/h (99 mph). Two new train sets were announced to be manufactured in ICF and were named 'Train-2018' since the manufacturing of these semi-high-speed services were targeted for completion in the year 2018.