Srinagar, June 19
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday boarded the Vande Bharat train at Srinagar to reach Katra in Reasi district.
Posting videos and pictures from the moving train, the CM said on X, “Time to head to Jammu”.
Last week, his father and former chief minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, travelled on the Vande Bharat train from Srinagar to Katra and back.
Dr Farooq Abdullah stayed for the night at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra, where he joined prayers during the night and in the morning before heading back to Srinagar.
The Vande Bharat train takes three hours to reach Srinagar from Katra. In September this year, after work at the Jammu railway station is completed, the Vande Bharat train will run between Jammu and Srinagar.
The train service was inaugurated on June 6 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The rail link from Katra to Srinagar has the world’s highest railway bridge on the Chenab River, which is 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower of Paris.