Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express through videoconferencing at the Puri Railway Station on Thursday.
The semi-high-speed train, Odisha’s first Vande Bharat Express, will have 16 coaches and run six days a week (except Thursday), according to the Eastern Coast Railway (ECoR).
Between Howrah and Puri, the Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express will have six stoppages at Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur Keonjhar Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khurda Road. It will have a halt of two minutes at these stations.
The train will leave Howrah at 6.10 am and reach Puri at 12.35 pm. In its return journey, the train will depart from Puri at 1.50 pm and reach Howrah at 8.30 pm.
