SHOCKING! Man throws STONE at newly inaugurated Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat categorical prepare, suffers harm | Railways Information

An unidentified individual threw a stone at a windowpane of the just lately inaugurated Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat Specific prepare in Chhattisgarh, an official reported on Thursday. The occasion occurred on Wednesday night when this semi-high-speed prepare was travelling to Bilaspur within the state between Durg and Bhilai Nagar railway stations underneath the Raipur division of the South East Central Railway (SECR), he mentioned. 

“Any individual hurled a stone on the prepare from outdoors, which brought about harm to a window of the E1 coach final night. However no one was injured within the incident,” the official mentioned. The Railway Safety Drive (RPF) was knowledgeable about it, and a probe was initiated, he added. The Vande Bharat Specific prepare between Nagpur in Maharashtra and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, the sixth such service within the nation, was flagged-off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday.

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The prepare on the Nagpur-Bilaspur route is overlaying a distance of 412 kms on the route with a pace of round 130 kmph. It takes the prepare 5 hours half-hour to cowl the space with 6 stoppages at Nagpur, Gondia, Rajnandgaon, Durg, Raipur, and Bilaspur.

The brand new Vande Bharat prepare on this route has received 16 chair-car coaches with a capability to hold 1128 passengers. Furthermore, the prepare is loaded with options and has received cameras on board for passengers’ safety, with a number of facilities.

The Nagpur-Bilaspur Vande Bharat categorical prepare is the second prepare within the state of Maharashtra and the sixth one in India. Earlier than this, there have been 5 trains on numerous in India. Between Delhi and Varanasi, the inaugural Vande Bharat Specific started operation. The primary semi-high-speed railway within the nation additionally supplies service to Kanpur and Allahabad. The second Vande Bharat prepare was launched between Delhi and Shri Vaishno Devi Mata, Katra. There may be now a 3rd prepare working between Mumbai and Gandhinagar. The fourth Vande Bharat Specific, which travels from Una in Himachal Pradesh to New Delhi, was additionally devoted by PM Modi.

With PTI inputs