Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off two Vande Bharat trains from Mumbai to Shirdi and Solapur at Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. (Pics/Sameer Abedi)
Updated On: 2023-02-10 05:48 PM IST
At an event at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in south Mumbai, PM Modi first flagged off the the CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat Express and later another semi high-speed train linking the financial capital to Sainagar Shirdi temple town in Ahmednagar district
The Mumbai-Solapur Vande Bharat Express will cover a distance of 455 km between Mumbai and the textile city in 6 hours and 30 minutes, slashing the time by one hour
The Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi Vande Bharat Express will take 5 hours and 25 minutes to cover 343 km distance to the temple town
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union minister Narayan Rane, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were present at the event
This is PM Modi's second visit to the city in less than a month. On January 19, PM Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones for infrastructure and healthcare projects worth more than Rs 38,000 crore in Mumbai
