Good decision to start with......Need to divert all the SFs from that route,I guess Karmabhoomi will be the next to follow.Though Region Specific trains should stay.That will help to facillitate better DEMU runns,I/C runs and some of the Very Very Important trains of that region like KanchanKanya.Hope daily passengers ke 'Ab ache din aane wale hain'

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I hope so... & the main consideration been Track Doubling in this region...

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my take is the doubling will take too much time...can consider the doubling till Raninagar.....and then patch doubling...........chalo SMTA-NCB tak bhi ho jayega.....par NCB TO JALPAIGURI RD bahut time lagega......best option to expedite the 80%completed work of NQH-MAYNAGURI RD JN-NCBD-NCB.......trains can un interuptedly come from New Domohoni to Fakiragram via this route.Why not complete the work in 6 months and start the trains by Jan,2015.That will take off a lot of freights,passengers,Express trains and effectively de congest.

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dont xpect SMTA-RQJ doubling to be done in 1 or 2 years......Its not going to happen and also i a situation when there are multiple bridges,small cuverts etc.So the only solution is to complete the '80% completed'NQH-MAYNAGURI RD JN-NCBD-NCB section and divert freights,passengers and some Weeklies initially which can entirely facilitate EC and NCB-NJP.Yes a substantial amount of fund is being allocated for SMTA-RQJ but will it be able to fulfill that.I have my reservations.

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