So in these 3 months from Feb to April they are days when the min occupancy is below 800 or 80% in ACC during weekdays. The days may be in Feb month. I have quoted this that the train doesn't get full occupancy from June 15 till Oct 1st and in Feb which are considered as non season for tourists to Sikkim and Darjeeling. The train has excellent advance booking from March 15th to June 15th for about a month and from Oct 1st to Feb 1st for atleast a week which are tourist seasons.

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two routes are there but 2nd route has never faced premium trains except in scenario of traffic block

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Shatabdi express with 10ACC or 780 seats is already running. Tourists to Sikkim or Darjeeling won't prefer morning dep from NJP as they have to travel by road for 4 hours which is not possible during night and take the present Vande Bharat in afternoon. The Shatabdi express has current availability on many days for this 780 seats capacity in both directions. I'f a new VB is introduced from NJP morning dep then the travellers of Shatabdi will migrate and Shatabdi will be empty. There is no point of running 2 trains in direction one after another.

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It will benefit MLDT public who can go to kolkata for work in morning. For NJP side it will be taken by work related or common public not tourists from kolkata . Tourists have other options

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you are from bengalore then you tell why 2 reverse VBs are running despite of shatabdi . Is shatabdi empty in your side?

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Khammam sattupalli Railway line are u sure? When is the survey done, route km and estimated cost of the line, is it approved by Railway Board. Please provide information with any news links or screen shots of the information about the proposed line from Khammam

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