New Bhuj-Barauni Amrit Bharat Express to Cover 2,532 km

The correct answer is 2,532 km. The new service approved by Indian Railways connects Bhuj in Gujarat with Barauni in Bihar and covers that distance while passing through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which makes it one of the longer runs given to a train of the Amrit Bharat class. The train runs as number 19427 from Bhuj, departing at 17:30 and reaching Barauni at 04:05, and as number 19428 in the return direction, leaving Barauni at 23:55 and arriving at Bhuj at 13:15. The other three options are near-miss figures of the kind an examiner places to catch a candidate who half remembers the number, since the digits are the same but rearranged. Note also that the service is tri-weekly, running three days a week in each direction rather than daily.

The correct answer is Mathura. Indian Railways approved the extension of trains 11901 and 11902 up to Mathura station, which lifts the run of the service from 217 km to 270 km and brings Jhansi, Agra and Mathura together on one train. On the newly added stretch, commercial halts have been given at Raja ki Mandi, Runkuta, Deen Dayal Dham and Baad, so passengers at these four stations gain a service they did not have earlier. Gwalior lies on the other side of Jhansi on the Delhi-Bhopal route and is not part of this extension, so option A is wrong. Bharatpur and Hathras are stations on the route of the new Bhuj-Barauni Amrit Bharat Express and belong to a separate announcement, which is why options C and D are wrong here.

The correct answer is Maharashtra. The new service links Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and Maharashtra does not figure on the route at all. The train starts from Bhuj in the Kutch region of Gujarat, touches Samakhiali and Ahmedabad, moves through Ratlam and then into Rajasthan at Kota, Sawai Madhopur, Gangapur City and Bharatpur, enters Uttar Pradesh at Mathura and continues through Hathras, Bareilly, Izzatnagar, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur, Gonda and Gorakhpur before reaching Bihar at Siwan, Chhapra, Hajipur, Muzaffarpur and Samastipur on its way to Barauni. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are therefore all on the route, which rules out options A, B and D. Memorising the terminals and the four states is usually enough for objective questions on a new train service.