The railway authorities are mulling over a 160 km/hour top speed at the moment.
The upgraded MEMU services are being touted to be run on routes from Mumbai-Pune, Nashik, and Vadodara. This means, the time taken to traverse 192 km would plummet to barely two hours, as opposed to 3 hours 15 minutes – the time taken to travel by the Deccan Queen.
During the trial runs, the rail authority plans to run the trains at 100 km/hr speed at first and gradually move to a speed of 160 km/hr.
