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Starting July 27, Vande Bharat Express (22489/22490) will add a new stop at Hapur, as the train running from Meerut to Lucknow already had the stoppage at Meerut. The Railway Board has given permission for the new stoppage. This has been done for the train’s utilization given the low average passenger count and to enable the maximum numbers of people to utilize the train.
As per railway sources, between Meerut and Lucknow, Vande Bharat Express is an option besides the Rajya Rani Express. But the occupancy of the train has been low. Thus, the railways has tried a new approach to increase the number of passengers by making Hapur as a new stoppage. After the Railway Board approval, Moradabad division is active. According to Senior DCM Aditya Gupta, the Meerut-Lucknow Vande Bharat Express will now stop at Hapur from July 27. This will enhance the convenience for passengers within the Moradabad-Meerut rail section. Additionally, the railways is proposing extending the train to Varanasi on August 27, primarily to enable faster and easier movement from Western UP to Eastern UP.
Passenger train services between Jhansi and Lucknow Junction will be suspended for five days starting from the 29th.
Due to the ongoing non-interlocking work at the Jaitpur station yard on Kanpur rail section of North Railway Lucknow division, services on Lucknow Junction Jhansi Passenger will be suspended from 29th July to 2nd August. A number of other services will also be affected; 24 trains including the Shatabdi will be halted on the route, and 9 trains will bypass Jaitpur station. Additionally, Vande Bharat Express will operate at adjusted schedules.
According to Senior DCM Kuldeep Tiwari, the passenger services 51813 Jhansi Lucknow Junction Passenger and 51814 Lucknow Jhansi Jhansi will become permanently suspended over the next five days. Also, between 22nd July and 2nd August, approximately over a dozen trains which include the Darbhanga Delhi Special (04071), Sabarmati Express (19410), Barauni Gwalior Mail (11124), Gorakhpur Yeshwantpur (12591), Jogbani Anand Vihar (14093), Raptisagar (12511), Sabarmati Lucknow Express (19401), Shatabdi Express (12004), and a few others will operate but will need to be delayed between 15 minutes to 2.5 hours. In this pattern, 22426 Anand Vihar Ayodhya Cantt Vande Bharat Express will be scheduled to depart Anand Vihar at 7 PM but will be delayed by 50 minutes. Also, 14124 Kanpur Central Maa Belha Devi Pratapgarh Dham will be scheduled to depart from Kanpur on the 28th but will be delayed by 30 minutes.
These trains will not halt at Jaitipur.
As per the Senior DCM, the trains 55345 Lucknow Kasganj Passenger, 64203 Lucknow Junction Kanpur Central MEMU, 64211 Lucknow Junction Kanpur MEMU, and 64255 Uttaretia Kanpur MEMU will not halt at Jaitipur from the 23rd of July to the 2nd of August. Additionally, 51814 Lucknow Junction Jhansi Passenger will not halt from the 23rd to the 28th of July, and 55346 Kasganj Lucknow Passenger, 64204 Kanpur Lucknow Junction MEMU, 64212 Kanpur Lucknow Junction MEMU, and 64214 Kanpur Lucknow Junction MEMU will not halt from the 31st of July to the 2nd of August.
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