Got a chance to travel by DD last Friday. Seat allocated to me was a lower deck window seat. I was very anxious regarding DD since i came across lot of complaints about cramped seats . I'm 5 feet 11 big guy. I found that leg room even on the lower deck area was not as bad as people made it sound like. Seats on this train was much better than Spicejet & Indigo economy seats. Yes, i have to agree that seats were a bit narrow and hard. I wish railways added some cushion to soften the seat. Only complaint regarding this train was the overheated luggage bin. It wasn't big enough to take my medium size bag in there. I loved the ride quality of DD. DD felt more planted and less jerky than Shatabdi express. The good thing about this train was consistent speed. I fired up my...
more... GPS speed on few occasions and on all occasions train was cruising at 98-102 kmph. Even 100 Kmph on this train fees like 70 Kmph due to low NVH levels. BTW, occupancy rates were poor. There were about 40 vacant seats in my coach.