BENGALURU: With Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal at Byappanahalli ready for inauguration and the railways planning Vande Bharat Express on major routes across the country, rail activists want a dedicated Bengaluru-Mumbai premium train with limited stoppages and running time below 19 hours.
Bengaluru to Mumbai is 984km by road, a distance covered in 15-17 hours. But there is only one direct daily train between the country’s finance and tech capitals: Udyan Express, which takes around 23 hours and 35 minutes to cover 1,134km (33 stations) at an average speed of 48.2kmph.
