Howrah–Rourkela Vande Bharat Express

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20871 ↓ Howrah Junction Kharagpur Junction West Bengal Jharkhand border Tatanagar Junction Chakradharpur Jharkhand Odisha border 20872 ↑ Rourkela Junction

The 20871/20872 Howrah - Rourkela Vande Bharat Express is India's 58th Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the metropolitan and twin city of Kolkata, Howrah in West Bengal with the smart city of Rourkela in Odisha.

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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This train is currently operated by Indian Railways, connecting Howrah Jn, Kharagpur Jn, Tatanagar Jn, Chakradharpur and Rourkela Jn. It currently operates with train numbers 20871/20872 on 6 days a week basis.^[8]

It is the fifty-fith 2nd Generation and thirty-ninth 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.^[9]

The 20871/20872 Howrah - Rourkela Vande Bharat Express currently operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 412 km (256 mi) in a travel time of 05 hrs 50 mins with average speed of 71 km/h. The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be confirmed after commercial run.

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatiman Express
• Howrah Junction railway station
• Rourkela 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