The 20669/20670 SSS Hubballi - Pune Vande Bharat Express is India's 62nd Vande Bharat Express train, connecting the historic town of Karnataka, Hubli with the Deccan Plateau city of Pune in Maharashtra.
[1][2][3] This express train was inaugurated on September 16, 2024[4] (instead of September 15, 2024) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conferencing from the largest metropolitan city of Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat.
[14][13] It is the fifty-ninth second generation and forty-second 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.
[15] The 20669/20670 SSS Hubballi–Pune Vande Bharat Express currently operates three days a week, covering a distance of 559 km (347 mi) in a travel time of 08hrs 30mins with an average speed of 66 km/h.
The maximum permissible speed (MPS) will be confirmed after a commercial run.