Report a Correction

This Vande Bharat Express guide is only useful if it is accurate. Timetables, fares and rules for Vande Bharat trains change through new timetables, fare revisions, Railway Board circulars and zonal railway notices, and we will sometimes be behind. Passengers who travel on a Vande Bharat train every week often notice a change before we do. A short email from you helps every other passenger who reads the page after you.

What to include in your report

The more of these you can send, the faster we can check and fix the page:

1. The page address (URL), or the page title, for example “Howrah – Puri Vande Bharat Express (22895 / 22896)”.
2. What is wrong. Quote the sentence, table row or number that you think is incorrect.
3. What it should say. For example, “22895 now leaves Howrah at 06:00, not 06:10”.
4. Your source. A screenshot of the IRCTC search or fare screen, the NTES schedule, a railway notice, or a station announcement. Tell us the date you saw it.
5. The train number and date, if your report is about one Vande Bharat train on one day.

Please do not send your PNR, IRCTC password, payment details or ID documents. We never need them to correct a page.

What we can correct

• Timetables: departure and arrival times, stops, distances, running days and the day a train does not run.
• Train numbers and stations: for example, a Vande Bharat Express listed with the wrong terminal station or station code.
• Fares: the base fare, charges, meal charge or total shown for a Vande Bharat train in CC, EC, 3A, 2A or 1A.
• Rules: booking dates, Tatkal timing and charges, refund and cancellation rules, ticket changes, quotas and the separate rules for the Vande Bharat Sleeper.
• Seats, coaches and food: seat counts, coach formations, meal options and charges.
• Tools: a calculator on this site that gives a result you believe is wrong. Tell us the inputs you used and the result you expected.
• Spelling, broken links and unclear writing.

What we cannot correct

Some information changes by the minute or for one day only, and belongs on the official live services rather than on this guide:

If a short-term change becomes permanent, such as a new timetable that takes effect from a fixed date, please do tell us: that is exactly what we want to update.

How we check a report

Every report is checked before we change anything, so that one person’s mistake does not become everyone’s mistake.

• Timetables are checked against at least two timetable sources, and against NTES or IRCTC where we can. A new time is published only when the sources agree.
• Fares are checked on IRCTC’s fare enquiry, with the full breakdown: base fare, reservation charge, superfast charge, GST, catering and any dynamic fare.
• Rules are checked against the official text where it is available: Railway Board circulars, Gazette notifications and Ministry of Railways statements published by PIB. Where only a news report exists, we label the information as reported.
• Station details are checked against the station code, because a Vande Bharat train always uses one specific station even when people search by city.

If the report is right, we fix the page and change its “last checked” date. If the change matters to many passengers, such as a new Vande Bharat Express timetable or a rule change, we also record it on Updates with its date and source. If we cannot confirm the report from a reliable source, we keep the page as it is, and if the evidence is mixed we say so on the page.

We review reports in the order they arrive, and we look first at reports about timetables and fares, because those affect journeys directly.

Corrections we have already made

Being open about mistakes is part of being trustworthy. These are real examples of corrections made while building this Vande Bharat guide:

• Nanded, not Jalna. Our first list said train pair 20705/20706 ran to Jalna. Timetable checks showed it runs between Hazur Sahib Nanded (NED) and Mumbai CSMT, with Jalna as an intermediate stop. We corrected the data before any page used it.
• Delhi has five Vande Bharat stations, not four. The homepage first said Delhi had 12 Vande Bharat routes from four stations. A recount from the route list showed 14 routes from five stations, including Delhi Cantt.
• No RAC on Chair Car. An early draft offered “RAC” as a ticket status for Vande Bharat Chair Car trains. CC and EC have seats, not berths, so there is no RAC; we removed it from the guides and the refund calculator.
• Window seat numbers removed. We first published a rule for which seat numbers are window seats. When we found no official Vande Bharat seat-numbering diagram, and a reported case of a “window” seat that was an aisle seat, we removed the rule.
• Morning trains. A draft said most Vande Bharat trains leave in the morning. Our own data showed it is closer to half, because most routes run out in the morning and back in the afternoon. The wording was corrected.
• Vande Bharat Sleeper waiting list. Our pages said the Sleeper sells confirmed tickets only, as the Railway Board circular states. When IRCTC showed waiting-list numbers on the New Delhi–Varanasi Sleeper 27422, we updated every page to give both facts.

Why we ask for a source

Many websites copy Vande Bharat train details from each other, so a wrong time can spread quickly. When we built this guide, third-party fare sites disagreed with each other by up to double for the same Vande Bharat Express ticket. That is why we only change a page when an official or independently confirmed source supports the change. A screenshot from IRCTC or NTES with the date is the most useful evidence you can send.

Report a correction

Email [email address coming soon] with the subject “Correction” and the details above. Thank you for helping keep this Vande Bharat guide accurate for every passenger.

For other questions, see the Contact page. To understand how we source and check information, read our editorial policy.