Meerut City–Lucknow Charbagh Vande Bharat Express

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22490 ↓ Meerut City Junction Moradabad Junction Bareilly Junction 22489 ↑ Lucknow Charbagh

The 22490/22489 Meerut City - Lucknow Charbagh Vande Bharat Express is India's 54th Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the capital of the kingdom of Mayasura, Meerut with the capital multicultural city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.

This express train was inaugurated on 31 August 2024 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from New Delhi.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This express train is operated by Indian Railways, connecting Meerut City Jn, Moradabad Jn, Bareilly Jn and Lucknow Charbagh. It is currently operated with train numbers 22490/22489 on 6 days a week basis.^[8][9]

It is the fifty-second 2nd Generation and thirty-sixth Mini Vande Bharat 2.0 Express train which was designed and manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory at Perambur, Chennai under the Make in India Initiative.^[10]

The 22490/22489 Meerut City - Lucknow Charbagh Vande Bharat Express currently 6 days a week, covering a distance of 459 km (285 mi) in a travel time of 07 hrs 10 mins with average speed of 64 km/h.^[11][12] The Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) will be 110km/h.

• Vande Bharat Express
• Tejas Express
• Gatimaan Express
• Meerut City Junction railway station
• Lucknow Charbagh railway station

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Vande Bharat Express

Central Railway

• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Madgaon^
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Sainagar Shirdi
• Mumbai CSMT ⇔ Solapur
• Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) ⇔ SMVT Bengaluru^
• SCSMT Kolhapur ⇔ Pune Jn.^
• Nagpur Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.^

East Central Railway

• Patna Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Ranchi Jn.^
• Patna Jn. ⇔ Gomti Nagar (Lucknow)^

East Coast Railway

• Visakhapatnam Jn. ⇔ Secunderabad Jn.
• Puri ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Bhubaneswar ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ New Jalpaiguri Jn.
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Gaya Jn.^
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Bhagalpur Jn.^

North Central Railway

• Agra Cantonment ⇔ Banaras^

North Eastern Railway

• Gorakhpur Jn ⇔ Prayagraj (Allahabad) Jn^
• Lucknow Jn ⇔ Dehradun Terminal^

Northeast Frontier Railway

• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Guwahati^
• New Jalpaiguri Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

Northern Railway

• Amritsar Jn. ⇔ Delhi Jn.^
• Anand Vihar Terminal ⇔ Ayodhya Cantonment Jn.^
• New Delhi ⇔ Amb Andaura
• Dehradun ⇔ Anand Vihar Terminal^
• New Delhi ⇔ Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra
• New Delhi ⇔ Varanasi Jn.
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ New Delhi
• SMVD Katra ⇔ New Delhi
• Hazrat Nizamuddin ⇔ Khajuraho Jn.^
• Meerut City Jn. ⇔ Lucknow Charbagh^
• Varanasi Jn. ⇔ Deoghar Jn.^

North Western Railway

• Ajmer Jn. ⇔ Chandigarh Jn.^
• Jodhpur ⇔ Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Jaipur Jn.^
• Udaipur City ⇔ Agra Cantonment^

South Central Railway

• Jalna ⇔ Mumbai CSMT^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Tirupati
• Kacheguda ⇔ Yesvantpur Jn.^
• Secunderabad Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South East Central Railway

• Bilaspur Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Durg Jn. ⇔ Visakhapatnam Jn.^

South Eastern Railway

• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Puri
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Howrah Jn.^
• Ranchi Jn. ⇔ Varanasi Jn.^
• Howrah Jn. ⇔ Rourkela Jn.^
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Brahmapur^
• Tatanagar Jn. ⇔ Patna Jn.^

South Western Railway

• KSR Bengaluru ⇔ Dharwad^
• Mysuru Jn. ⇔ MGR Chennai Central^
• SSS Hubballi Jn. ⇔ Pune Jn.^

Southern Railway

• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Tirunelveli Jn.^
• Coimbatore Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Alappuzha)^
• Kasaragod ⇔ Thiruvananthapuram Central (via Kottayam)
• Mangaluru Central ⇔ Madgaon Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Coimbatore Jn.^
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Mysuru Jn.
• MGR Chennai Central ⇔ Vijayawada Jn.^
• Chennai Egmore ⇔ Nagercoil Jn.
• Madurai Jn. ⇔ Bengaluru Cantonment^

West Central Railway

• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Hazrat Nizamuddin
• Rani Kamalapati (Habibganj) ⇔ Rewa^

Western Railway

• Mumbai Central ⇔ Gandhinagar Capital
• Indore Jn. ⇔ Nagpur Jn.^
• Ahmedabad ⇔ Okha^
• Ahmedabad Jn. ⇔ Mumbai Central

^ indicates 8 coach trainset (standard: 16 coach trainset)