LUCKNOW, Jan. 28 -- For the first time since the Vande Bharat Express was conceived, its coaches are being built outside Chennai - at Uttar Pradesh's Modern Coach Factory (MCF) in Rae Bareli.

If timelines hold, the train set will roll out by the end of February, what MCF officials termed as the first Vande Bharat train manufactured in North India.

"The Vande Bharat trains running across the country so far were all manufactured at Integral Coach Factory, Chennai. This will be the first Vande Bharat to be built in North India," said PK Mishra, general manager, MCF, Rae Bareli and Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala.

Introduced in 2018 under the Centre's Make in India push, the Vande Bharat Express has become the face of India's modern rail am...