Ranchi–Howrah Vande Bharat Express

Legend

20898 ↓ Ranchi Junction Muri Junction Jharkhand West Bengal border Kotshila Junction Purulia Junction West Bengal Jharkhand border Chandil Tatanagar Junction Jharkhand West Bengal border Kharagpur Junction 20897 ↑ Howrah Junction

The 20898/20897 Ranchi - Howrah Vande Bharat Express is India's 31st Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the city of Ranchi in Jharkhand with Howrah in West Bengal.^[1] This train was inaugurated on 24 September 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conference from New Delhi.^[2]

The route of Ranchi-Howrah Vande Bharat train has been diverted. According to the information, now this train will go to Ranchi and come via Howrah, Kharagpur, Midnapore, Adra, Purulia, Muri. The green signal for this has been received from the Railways. Which will be effective on 3 December.^[3]

This train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting Ranchi Jn, Muri Jn, Kotshila Jn, Purulia Jn, Chandil Jn, Tatanagar Jn, Kharagpur Jn and Howrah Jn.^[4] It is currently operated with train numbers 20898/20897 on 6 days a week basis.^[5][6]

It is the twenty-ninth 2nd Generation and seventeenth Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train which was designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India Initiative.^[7]

This rake was converted from Blue-White livery to Saffron-Grey livery due to attraction of passengers and better services in terms of more advanced features that were incorporated in the new trainset. This became operational from July 12 2024. ^[8][9][10]

The 20898/20897 Ranchi - Howrah Vande Bharat Express operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 458 km (285 mi) in a travel time of 7 hrs 5 mins with an average speed of 65 km/h (40 mph). The Maximum Permissible Speed is 130 km/h (81 mph).

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Ranchi Junction railway station
• Howrah railway station

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon^
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^

East Central Railway

• Patna Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Ranchi Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Gomti Nagar (Lucknow)^

East Coast Railway

• Visakhapatnam Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.
• Puri ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Bhubaneswar ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ New Jalpaiguri Jn.

North Eastern Railway

• Gorakhpur Jn ⇔ Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn^
• Lucknow Jn ⇔ Dehradun Terminal^

Northeast Frontier Railway

• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Guwahati^
• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

Northern Railway

• Amritsar Jn. ⇔ Delhi Jn.^
• Anand Vihar Terminal ⇔ Ayodhya Cantonment Jn.^
• New Delhi ⇔ Amb Andaura
• Dehradun ⇔ Anand Vihar Terminal^
• New Delhi ⇔ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
• New Delhi ⇔ Varanasi Jn.
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ New Delhi
• SMVD Katra ⇔ New Delhi
• Hazrat Nizamuddin ⇔ Khajuraho Jn.^
• Meerut City Jn. ⇔ Lucknow Charbagh^

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.^
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.^

South Central Railway

• Jalna ⇔ Mumbai CSMT^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Tirupati
• Kacheguda ⇔ Yesvantpur Jn.^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.^

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad^
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central^

Southern Railway

• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Tirunelveli Jn.^
• Coimbatore Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Alappuzha)^
• Kasaragod ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Kottayam)
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Madgaon Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Coimbatore Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Mysuru Jn.
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Vijayawada Jn.^
• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Nagercoil Jn.
• Madurai Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^

West Central Railway

• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Hazrat Nizamuddin
• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Rewa^

Western Railway

• Mumbai Central ⇔ Gandhinagar Capital
• Indore Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Ahmedabad ⇔ Okha^
• Ahmedabad Jn. ⇔ Mumbai Central

^ indicates 8 coach trainset (standard: 16 coach trainset)