This train is preferred by a lot of people from Palakkad,Coimbatore,Erode going to Pune. Also i have seen people boarding from Krishnarajapuram (Bangalore) for Pune,Solapur etc. In the 2-3 occasions that i have travelled i have found the occupancy to be high . Most of the train gets vacant in Pune but then you also have a equally good number of passenegrs from Pune taking this train to Mumbai. It reaches Pune on Sunday evening (4-4:30pm) and reaches Mumbai at 8:30pm or thereabouts.