Vande Bharat Trains to Get Bigger! Extra Coaches Added on 7 Busy Routes in 2025

The Railway Board plans to add more coaches to Vande Bharat trains based on passenger numbers. Twenty coaches will be added on seven routes. Indian Railways runs 144 Vande Bharat trains with over 100% occupancy in recent years.

Routes getting extra coaches are Mangaluru Central-Thiruvananthapuram Central, Secunderabad-Tirupati, Chennai Egmore-Tirunelveli, Madurai-Bengaluru Cantt, Deoghar-Varanasi, Howrah-Rourkela, and Indore-Nagpur.

Three routes with 16 coaches will get 20 coaches. Four routes with 8 coaches will increase to 16 coaches. This plan is based on passenger data and feasibility till July 2025.