File pic of a sleeper Vande Bharat
The inaugural special, train number 06503, will be flagged off from Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal (SMVT) in Bengaluru at 12.15 pm on Nov 1 and reach Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in Mumbai at 6.15 am the following day. Regular services will commence from Nov 2, railway officials said.
27651 will depart from CSMT at 8.10 pm and reach SMVT Bengaluru at noon the following day. 27652 will leave SMVT Bengaluru at 7.45 pm and arrive at CSMT at 11.55 am the next day. The country’s first Vande Bharat Sleeper train was flagged off by Prime Minister Modi on Jan 17, 2026, on the Howrah-Kamakhya route.
Train no, according to the schedule released by Central Railway. In the opposite direction, train no. The introduction of the Mumbai-Bengaluru service will extend the sleeper variant to another major intercity route, catering to passengers seeking an overnight rail connection between Maharashtra and Karnataka.