Vande Bharat Express: A Rail fan’s perspective on the Executive Class
For a short 4.5 hour journey, unless one is travelling as a family of four OR a group of 4 corporates who’d like to hold a meeting, the EC is just fancy.
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Introduction
Just about a year after I took my first ride on the Mysuru – Chennai Vande Bharat Express, it was time to repeat the experience. This time, we decided to try the Executive Class. Bhpian @84.monsoon has covered a lot of features of the Executive Class on this train via this post, and I’ll try adding some dimensions which might not have been covered before. Here are two pics – one from my first ride and one from now – same shooter, same cam, same platform.
Nov-2022
First impressions of the Executive Class
Sensor actuated doors, wide lobby, cabin upkeep was all fine – in fact it was good to see the train being kept well even after a year. Now comes the new dimension I hinted in the first post. Among most passengers boarding the Executive Class coach, there was this air of sophistication with bombastic English, and along with bombastic English, I could clearly see an attitude to show that they own the train. This isn’t an aberration. Here are some:
On the positive side, though, here are some good ones (some might be repeat observations)
Likes
- Supreme cleanliness and upkeep even a year later
- Blinds on the massive windows still work as intended
- Great wide cozy seats with additional with a velcro fastened foam pad which can be placed to one’s convenience
- Flexi seats – move them around 360 degrees
- Emergency communication system
- Aircraft biz class style tray table is the best I’ve seen in an Indian train till date
- filling high tea
- CCTV cameras
- Smoke detectors
- Fire detectors and alarms
- Bio-vacuum toilet
- Jaquar taps on the washbasins
Dislikes
- Seat fabric might wear away with time
- on board wifi could not be used
- one side’s electronic door opening switch in coach E1 wasn’t working; got rectified later
Experiencing Executive Class
I will let the pictures do the talking
Seatback – can store quite some stuff
Headrest foam pad – adjustable to suit passenger’s head and height
Place the foam pad to suit one’s head
Spectrawide footrest
Soft touch reading lights
Nice to see a wifi connection on board a train
Overhead rack
The 360 degree rotatable seat – gaze out of the windows or have a meeting, face in direction of the train or against it
Continue reading BHPian vigsom’s review for more insights and information.
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