Patna-Ayodhya Vande Bharat: In order to provide better facilities to the extra crowd of passengers and devotees, the Railways has decided to run the Ayodhya Vande Bharat Express train from Patna from next month.
Vande Bharat Express: It has now become very easy to go to Lord Shri Ram’s city Ayodhya from Patna, the capital of Bihar. After the consecration of Ram Lalla, a large number of devotees are reaching Ayodhya. In such a situation, now the Railways has also geared up. In the east, three trains go to or pass through Patna to Ayodhya. But, now going to Ramnagari from Vande Bharat will be a pleasant journey in itself. Here, Spice Jet has also started air service to Ayodhya four days a week from this month. Four buses are also being operated. But to make the journey of the devotees easier, Railways has now decided to give the gift of Vande Bharat.
Vande will be able to travel from Bharat to Ramnagari
In order to provide better facilities to the extra crowd of passengers and devotees on this route, Railways has decided to run Vande Bharat Express train on this route from next month. Two rakes of this train will reach Patna this month. Survey work for the operation of the train has also been completed. It is expected that Vande Bharat operations will also be started on this route before Holi.
Passengers will arrive two hours earlier
The journey from Vande Bharat to Ayodhya will be completed in 08 hours instead of 10. At present, by express train, passengers complete the distance of 508 km from Ayodhya to Lucknow station via Patna Junction, Arrah, DDU, Varanasi in 10 hours. Vande Bharat Express will go from Patna Junction to Lucknow via Arrah, Buxar, DDU, Jaunpur, Ambedkar Nagar, Ayodhya. The survey work regarding Danapur, DDU and Varanasi Railway Division routes has already been completed.
Actually, there is a plan to run Vande Bharat between Patna and Lucknow which will run via Ayodhya. For this, the rake of Lucknow-Patna Bande Bharat Express has been allotted to the Railway Board from the Rail Coach Factory. The board may soon issue train related notification.
The fare for going to Ayodhya from Vande Bharat can be this much.
At present, the fare to go from Patna to Ayodhya is 1000 to 1500 rupees (depending on the class) by normal trains, 800 to 1000 rupees by bus and about 3000 rupees by plane. If official sources of Railways are to be believed, traveling in executive class of Vande Bharat may cost Rs 2500 to 2800. However, the final decision regarding fare has not been taken yet.
These trains are already running
At present, passengers use three trains to go from Patna to Ayodhya. Train No. 13483 Farakka Express which departs from Patna at 4:55 am and reaches Ayodhya at 3:06 pm. It runs on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. The second train number-13237 Patna-Kota Express which departs from Patna at 11:45 am and reaches Ayodhya at 7:42 pm. It operates on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.
The third train number 12529 Patliputra-Lucknow Junction Express leaves Patliputra at 4:30 pm and reaches Gonda at 11:50 pm. The distance from here to Ayodhya is only 46 km. From here you can go to Ayodhya by bus, auto or cab.
