I have faced the same situation while traveling to Lucknow from nagpur.. It was I guess 2002... Cochin exp aka raptsagar exp schedule to depart nagpur in evening was running around 30 hours late and the next days rapti sagar arrived nagpur before the previous days :).. I traveled from nagpur to Lucknow with around 4 to 5 people in my coach... No one boarded the train as no one was certain which days train it was... The pantry people sat down and chit chatted as they had very little to do...