How fast are India’s Vande Bharat trains really? Join us on this ride to find out… 🚆
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00:00No conversation about the Indian Railways today is complete without the mention of the
00:05Vande Bharat Express. On any given day, there are as many people travelling on Indian trains
00:10as there are people living in Australia.
00:12Are you kidding me?
00:13No.
00:14So if the Indian Railways is a country, Vande Bharat, its fleet swelling month by month,
00:20is now its capital.
00:21This is how the washroom is. It's clean.
00:27Brute India's Vikas Kumar got a snack on arrival trip down the Mumbai-Sholapur chapter
00:31of this sparkling new make-in-India machine.
00:33What's in this?
00:34Sir, this is veg food.
00:35These are veg snacks.
00:36This is poha.
00:37This is curd.
00:38This is protein.
00:39This is egg.
00:40This is namkeen.
00:41And this is veggies.
00:42The Vande Bharat Express can travel as fast as 180 kms per hour, but the speeds of these
00:51trains as of April 2023 were still inviting some scepticism.
00:55The maximum speed of this train is 105 kmph.
01:02105?
01:03Yes, 105.
01:04Yes, 105.
01:05This is the maximum speed of our division.
01:06But tell me, the speed of Vande Bharat is said to be around 160 kmph, but...
01:07The rate of Vande Bharat's speed is designed to go up to a maximum speed of 176-180 kmph.
01:20This train does not run on its own track even at a speed of 180 kmph.
01:27But it's not just about the train.
01:29The track on which the train runs should also be fit to absorb that speed.
01:38But Railway Minister Aishwani Vaishnav is supremely energized by the train's speeding ability.
01:4355 seconds is what bullet train takes to reach 0 to 100.
01:48And Vande Bharat takes how many seconds?
01:50Now you make a guess.
01:5152.
01:52Who said 52?
01:53Stand up.
01:54What's your name?
01:56Give a big round of applause for him.
02:01The current Vande Bharat trains are faster because they have got lighter over time as well.
02:05They weigh 392 tonnes now instead of the earlier 430-tonne version.
02:09And the cabin from where the local pilots run these trains looks like a cockpit.
02:13This is Vande Bharat's train.
02:16Is this the first time that Vande Bharat has come on Indian Railways?
02:22Yes, this is the first time.
02:25This is called TICAS.
02:29Train Collision Avoiding System.
02:32This is the system.
02:34It hasn't started yet.
02:37But this is the system that if the signal is red or there is a car in front,
02:43it will detect the car in advance.
02:47And it will prevent the car from colliding.
02:50It will brake the car in advance and stop it.
02:53The official word is that the major systems that play inside the train have all been designed and built in India
02:59at less than half of global prices, according to a press information bureau release.
03:03This is the conversation between the assistant locomotive driver and the locomotive driver.
03:07It goes on and on.
03:09You may be sleeping, but the conversation goes on.
03:13And the train runs on this basis.
03:16Let's see what the next signal is.
03:18I am also interested.
03:20Green.
03:2153 green.
03:2253 green.
03:23I want a double yellow pass.
03:25Yes.
03:26It's 3-0 now.
03:28I have listened to you.
03:31Do you want more?
03:33No, no.
03:34The signal is yellow now.
03:36The home signal of Sholapur will be red.
03:39That's why the speed has reduced.
03:41We will see the signal slowly.
03:43And according to that, the speed of the car will increase.
03:45We have reached Sholapur while talking about all this.
03:48The journey is over.