Delhi-Mumbai Talgo train completes final trial within 12 hours

September 11, 2016 08:18

To reduce the travel time between Delhi and Mumbai to less than 12 hours, the final trial run of Delhi-Mumbai Talgo train at 150 km per hour speed was conducted on Saturday which reached Mumbai in the wee hours on Sunday.

Spanish Talgo train aims to reduce travel time between Delhi-Mumbai by four hours.

Currently, the super-fast Rajdhani Express train takes around 16 hours between New Delhi and Mumbai.

Railways had conducted the first trial run of Talgo trains on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh followed by the second trial run was conducted on the Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.

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