Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Tejas Express to be flagged off today

- HT Correspond­ent lkoreporte­rsdesk@htlive.com

LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the country’s first private semi-high speed train, Tejas Express, on the Lucknow-New Delhi route on Friday.

Officials with Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporatio­n (IRCTC)—the Railways subsidiary that is operating the train— said the train would be flagged off at 9am.

“The chief minister will flag off the much awaited train on Friday,” said Ashwani Srivastava, chief regional manager (Lucknow), IRCTC.

However, the commercial run would start from Saturday onwards. As per the schedule, the train will leave Lucknow at 6:10am and touch New Delhi Railway station at 12:25pm, covering the entire distance in 6 hours and 15 minutes. The journey time of the train is lesser than the Swarn Shatabdi — currently the fastest train on the route.

Tejas Express would have only two halts — Kanpur and Ghaziabad. On its return journey, the train would leave Delhi at 3:35pm and reach Lucknow at 10:05pm. The train would run six days a week, except Tuesday.

The Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express train will have one executive class air-conditione­d chair car having 56 seats and nine airconditi­oned chair cars having a capacity of 78 seats each.

 ?? FILE ?? A passenger taking selfie with Tejas Express.
FILE A passenger taking selfie with Tejas Express.

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