BENGALURU (Metro Rail News): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the Yesvantpur-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express in Bengaluru at around 2 pm on Friday, 13 November 2026, giving Bengaluru a direct Vande Bharat link with coastal Karnataka and Goa. Regular services in both directions will start on 15 November.
Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will hold a simultaneous symbolic flag-off at Mangaluru Junction at around 2.30 pm with the MPs for Mangaluru, Udupi and Uttara Kannada, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary said.
Timings
The service will run as Train Nos. 26655 and 26656, six days a week, using two 16-coach Vande Bharat rakes.
| Direction | Departure | Arrival | Journey time | Does not run on |
| Yesvantpur to Madgaon | 7.35 am | 8.55 pm | About 13 hours 20 minutes | Wednesday |
| Madgaon to Yesvantpur | 8.20 am | 9.15 pm | About 12 hours 55 minutes | Thursday |
Stops
The train will have 12 scheduled stops between Yesvantpur and Madgaon:
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- Shravanabelagola
- Hassan
- Sakleshpur
- Subrahmanya Road
- Kabaka Puttur
- Mangaluru Junction
- Udupi
- Kundapura
- Mookambika Road Byndoor
- Murdeshwar
- Gokarna Road
- Karwar
Mangaluru-Madgaon Service Extended to Bengaluru
The new train extends the existing Mangaluru Central-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express to Yesvantpur. That service, Train Nos. 20645 and 20646, will be discontinued from 15 November.
A Bengaluru-Mangaluru Vande Bharat was first proposed in 2019, but the plan waited for electrification of the Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya ghat section. With the Karwar-Mangaluru-Bengaluru route now fully electrified, Vaishnaw announced the extension last year, and several trial runs were held between Bengaluru and Mangaluru.
Modi is also scheduled to inaugurate the elevated Kalena Agrahara-Tavarekere stretch of Bengaluru Metro’s Pink Line on 13 November.
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