Gatimaan Express

Gatimaan Express is a train which operates at a speed of 160 Km/h and was launched on 5 april 2016 by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu.The train started it’s journey from Hazrat Nizamuddin station towards agra cantonment on it’s lauched day and successfully completed it’s first journey with in 100 minutes.The train is good for those people who love to travel and especially who wants to see the TajMahal one of the seven wonders of the world, with in one hour thirty minutes they can reach agra from delhi.Gatimaan Express is the fastest train of the indian railway breaking the record of bhopal shatabdi which is now second fastest.The important thing about this train is that it will have entertainment facilities,baggage facilities and have only seating arrangements.Not only this the train have two Executive Ac Chair Car and eight Ac Chair Car coaches and the train have bio-toilets,fire alarms,global poisitioning system(GPS) based information and automatic sliding doors.Passengers can also have access to Wi-Fi and multimedia,both veg,non-veg meal is available in north indian and south indian cuisines.In this train,train hostesses will also be available just line in aeroplane we see air hostesses.The service of Gatimaan Express will be daily except on Friday because tajmahal is closed on Fridays.Though this are the qualities of this train but the question arises that why it take 28 years for the government of india and railway to bring the train like Gaatiman Express which know become the fastest train and the difference is only 5km/h more than bhopal shatabdi which top speed is 155km/h and it’s first service was in 1988.This shows that how slow we are in terms of railway development.We need to be fast if we want to develop our country and need to improve our time that’s the best way we can achieve our goal.

-Harshvardhan Lohani