NEW DELHI, Oct 6: The front portion of a Vande Bharat Superfast Express train running between Mumbai and Gujarat’s capital city of Gandhinagar was damaged after it collided with a herd of buffaloes between Vatwa and Maninagar on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on Thursday morning.
The newly-introduced semi-high speed train was flagged off by the prime minister Narendra Modi on this route only last week. A herd of buffaloes crashed into the train, damaging its nose (the front part). However, no functional part of the train was damaged and within eight minutes, the train was on the move again and reached its destination, Gandhinagar, on time.
Vande Bharat Express is an indigenously designed semi-High speed self-propelled train set of 16 coaches. The train reaches 160 kmph speed in just 140 seconds and it has better riding comfort for passengers at 3.5 (riding index). The train is equipped with Kavach (train collision avoidance system) safety equipment and the coaches have emergency talk back units.
(Manas Dasgupta)
