Madurai Junction–Bengaluru Cantonment Vande Bharat Express

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20671 ↓ Madurai Junction Dindigul Junction Tiruchchirappalli Junction Karur Junction Namakkal Salem Junction Tamil Nadu Karnataka border Krishnarajapuram 20672 ↑ Bengaluru Cantonment

The 20671/20672 Madurai Junction - Bengaluru Cantonment Vande Bharat Express is India's 53rd Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the Temple city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu with the Silicon City of Bangalore in Karnataka. This express train was initially slated to be inaugurated on 20 June 2024, but has been postponed due to administrative reasons. Later on 31 August 2024, it was inaugurated on 31 August 2024 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from New Delhi.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

During the trial run for this express, it was scheduled to take place on June 17 2024, where it would depart from Madurai in the morning and terminate at SMVT Bengaluru in the afternoon. This trainset (Rake number 61) would depart from SMVT Bengaluru post noon and would reach Madurai in the night as Madurai SMVT Bangalore Vandebharat Express but during inaugural run and at regular commercial run, it has been provided a new destination at Bangalore Cantonment along with additional stoppage at Namakkal.^[8]

This express train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting Madurai Junction, Dindigul Jn, Trichy Jn, Karur Jn, Namakkal, Salem Jn, Krishnarajapuram and Bengaluru Cantonment. ^[9] It is currently operated with train numbers 20671/20672 on 6 days a week basis.^[10][11][12]

It is the fifty-first 2nd Generation and thirty-fifth 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.^[13]

The 20671/20672 Madurai Junction - Bengaluru Cantonment Vande Bharat Express currently operates 6 days a week, covering a distance of 573 km (356 mi) in a travel time of 07 hrs 45 mins with average speed of 74 km/h.^[14] The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be confirmed after commercial run.

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Madurai Junction railway station
• Bengaluru Cantonment 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