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Goyal, Rupani to flag off second Tejas Exp from Ahmedabad
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SME Times News Bureau | 16 Jan, 2020
Union Railway and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Gujarat Chief
Minister Vijay Rupani will flag off the second Tejas Express train to be
operated by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC)
between Mumbai-Ahmedabad from Ahmedabad on Friday.
According to
the IRCTC officials, Goyal along with Rupani, Railway Board Chairman
V.K. Yadav, Western Railway General Manager Sanjeev Mittal and IRCTC MD
S. Mall will flag off the train on its inaugural run.
The train,
on its inaugural journey, will depart from Ahmedabad at 10.45 a.m. and
reach Mumbai Central at 5.15 p.m. The all new air-conditioned Tejas
Express train will commence its commercial run from January 19 with all
the modern facilities between Ahmedabad and Mumbai Central.
The
IRCTC said that the Tejas Express will run six days a week, except
Thursdays. As per the schedule, the train will leave Ahmedabad at 6.40
a.m. and reach Mumbai Central railway station at 1.10 p.m., covering the
entire distance of 533 km in 6 hours and 30 minutes.
It would
only have six halts -- Nadiad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, Vapi and
Borivali stations. On its return journey, the train would leave Mumbai
Central at 3.40 p.m. and reach Ahmedabad at 9.55 p.m.
In October, the IRCTC started the first Tejas Express train between Lucknow and New Delhi.
Tejas,
which is India's first private train run by IRCTC, has an executive
class air conditioned chair car with 56 seats and nine air-conditioned
coaches with a capacity of 78 passengers each.
Meals will be
served by on-board service staff in Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central Tejas
Express. Tea and coffee vending machines will be available in the train.
Water will be provided on demand through RO machines for passengers.
Tejas
Express contains all the modern facilities with the state-of-art
interior, personalised reading lights, AC coaches, mobile charging
points, CCTV cameras, bio-toilets, LED TV, automatic doors and many
more.
IRCTC is also contemplating the sale of merchandise goods on board to its passengers on these trains.
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