<div>Spanish-made Talgo train today completed its Mumbai journey 17 minutes behind the target due to the technical glitch.<br /><br />Talgo train with nine coaches has started at 2.47 PM from New Delhi station on Friday and reached Mumbai Central at 3.40 AM on Saturday running at 130 kmph speed.<br /><br />It took about 12 hours 53 minutes to reach the destination against the target of 12 hour 36 minutes, said a senior Railway Ministry official.<br /><br />He said besides heavy rains, there were some signal problems during the Mumbai trial run which caused the 17 minutes delay.<br /><br />There will be two more trials on Delhi-Mumbai section. Talgo is expected to run on 140 km per hour speed on August 9 and at 140 km speed and on August 14, he said.<br /><br />Talgo aims to reduce travel time between Delhi-Mumbai by four hours. Currently, the super-fast Rajdhani Express train takes around 16 hours to complete the 1,384 km stretch between New Delhi and Mumbai.<br /><br />Railways had conducted the first trial run of Talgo trains on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh in May. The second trial run was conducted on the Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.<br /><br />The nine-coach Talgo train consists of two Executive Class cars, four Chair Cars, a cafeteria, a power car and a tail-end coach for staff and equipment.</div>
<div>Spanish-made Talgo train today completed its Mumbai journey 17 minutes behind the target due to the technical glitch.<br /><br />Talgo train with nine coaches has started at 2.47 PM from New Delhi station on Friday and reached Mumbai Central at 3.40 AM on Saturday running at 130 kmph speed.<br /><br />It took about 12 hours 53 minutes to reach the destination against the target of 12 hour 36 minutes, said a senior Railway Ministry official.<br /><br />He said besides heavy rains, there were some signal problems during the Mumbai trial run which caused the 17 minutes delay.<br /><br />There will be two more trials on Delhi-Mumbai section. Talgo is expected to run on 140 km per hour speed on August 9 and at 140 km speed and on August 14, he said.<br /><br />Talgo aims to reduce travel time between Delhi-Mumbai by four hours. Currently, the super-fast Rajdhani Express train takes around 16 hours to complete the 1,384 km stretch between New Delhi and Mumbai.<br /><br />Railways had conducted the first trial run of Talgo trains on the Bareilly-Moradabad stretch in Uttar Pradesh in May. The second trial run was conducted on the Palwal-Mathura section of the North-Central Railway.<br /><br />The nine-coach Talgo train consists of two Executive Class cars, four Chair Cars, a cafeteria, a power car and a tail-end coach for staff and equipment.</div>