LUCKNOW, Jan. 29 -- 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. RN Tiwari, chief public relations officer, MCF, said the Rae Bareli-built rake will feature a 16-coach chair car configuration with a total seating capacity of 1,128 passengers. "The train offers executive and standard chair cars, fully air-conditioned interiors, sealed gangways, continuous windows, bio-vacuum toilets, Wi-Fi, CCTV, LED lighting and modern passenger information systems," he said. With its aerodynamic nose, bolster-less bogies and computer-based onboard monitoring, the Vande Bharat emerging from Raebareli reflects a decentralisation of advanced railway manufacturing....