More than 160 Vande Bharat Express services now run across India — from Jammu to Kanyakumari, from Howrah to Mumbai. This is the practical directory: where they run, which stations they serve, and how to pick the right one for your journey.

What Vande Bharat actually is

Vande Bharat is India’s indigenous semi high-speed trainset — 160 km/h capable on the broad-gauge network, air-conditioned chair car and executive chair car, faster acceleration than loco-hauled trains, and shorter halts. Most services are daytime intercity runs of 300 to 700 km, designed to get you there and back in a day or to bridge two big cities with a handful of intermediate stops.

Every service has a pair of train numbers (one per direction), a departure, an arrival, and a set of service days. The atlas lists all four on each train page, plus every mapped halt in order with arrival, departure and distance from origin.

Where they run — by region

  • North: Delhi–Varanasi (22436), Delhi–Katra (22439), Dehradun–Anand Vihar (22457), Chandigarh–Ajmer (20977) and the Amb Andaura corridor (22448) are among the busiest. Delhi–Varanasi was one of the first services and remains a template for the 759 km daytime pattern.
  • West and central: Mumbai–Ahmedabad (22961), Mumbai–Madgaon (22229), Nagpur–Bilaspur (20825), Nagpur–Indore (20911), Secunderabad–Nagpur (20101) and the Bhopal corridor (20171) tie the Deccan, Konkan and central India.
  • South: Chennai–Mysuru (20607), Coimbatore–Chennai (20643), Secunderabad–Tirupati (20701), Thiruvananthapuram–Kasargod (20633) and Pune–Hubballi (20669) cover Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and the Karnataka–Maharashtra border.
  • East and north-east: Howrah–Puri (22895), New Jalpaiguri–Howrah (22301), Guwahati–NJB (22227) and Ranchi–Patna (22349) serve the east coast, Bengal basin and Assam.

How to choose a service

Start with the city pair — search by origin and destination on the Vande Bharat directory. Check the service days (many run six days a week, some except Tuesday, a few three days a week), the departure time at origin, and the halts that matter to you. If the board says “Superfast” or “Shatabdi,” the Vande Bharat on the same belt usually has fewer halts and a faster schedule on the same track.

What to check before you book

Timings and service days are published by Indian Railways and can shift with timetable revisions. This atlas cross-checks every schedule against public listings and marks each page with a “last checked” date, but always confirm on IRCTC or NTES before you buy. If you spot a change, the station list and train numbers on the detail page make it easy to compare.