Varanasi–Deoghar Vande Bharat Express

Varanasi Junction – Deoghar Junction Vande Bharat Express
Overview
Service type	Vande Bharat Express
Locale	Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand
First service	15 September 2024 (15 September 2024) (Inaugural) 16 September 2024; 2 days ago (16 September 2024) (Commercial)
Current operator(s)	Northern Railways (NR)
Route
Termini	Varanasi Junction (BSB) Deoghar Junction (DGHR)
Stops	06
Distance travelled	456 km (283 mi)
Average journey time	07 hrs 20 mins
Service frequency	Six days a week [a]
Train number(s)	22500/22499
Line(s) used	Varanasi–DDU line DDU–Gaya section Gaya-Kiul line Patna–Asansol section (till Jasidih Junction) Jasidih–Dumka–Rampurhat line (till Deoghar Junction)
On-board services
Class(es)	AC Chair Car, AC Executive Chair Car
Seating arrangements	Legend 22500 ↓ Varanasi Junction Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction Uttar Pradesh Bihar border Sasaram Junction Gaya Junction Nawada Kiul Junction Bihar Jharkhand border Jasidih Junction 22499 ↑ Deoghar Junction

The 22500/22499 Varanasi - Deoghar Vande Bharat Express is India's 61st Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the Ganges city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh with the holy pilgrimage city of Deoghar in Jharkhand.^[1][2]

This express train was inaugurated on September 15 2024, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from the capital city of Ranchi instead of physically inaugurating at Tatanagar Junction in Jharkhand due to continuous rains in Jamshedpur.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

This train is currently operated by Indian Railways, connecting Varanasi Jn, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Jn, Sasaram Jn, Gaya Jn, Nawada, Kiul Jn, Jasidih Jn and Deoghar Jn.^[9] It currently operates with train numbers 22500/22499 on 6 days a week basis.

It is the fifty-eighth 2nd Generation and forty-first 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.^[10]

The 22500/22499 Varanasi - Deoghar Vande Bharat Express currently operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 456 km (283 mi) in a travel time of 07 hrs 20 mins with average speed of 62 km/h. The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be confirmed after commercial run.

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatiman Express
• Varanasi Junction railway station
• Deoghar Junction 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☆
• SCSMT Kolhapur ⇔ Pune Jn.☆
• Nagpur Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.★

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.
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Gaya Jn.
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Bhagalpur Jn.☆

North Central Railway

• Agra Cantonment ⇔ Banaras☆

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☆
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ Deoghar Jn.☆

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)☆
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.☆
• Udaipur City ⇔ Agra Cantonment☆

South Central Railway

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

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.☆
• Durg Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.☆
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.☆
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Rourkela Jn.☆
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Brahmapur☆
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.☆

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad☆
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central☆
• SSS Hubballi Jn. ⇔ Pune Jn.☆

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 | ★ indicates 20 coach trainset