20 th extension day and 19 years of extension has been completed. Extended on 28 th October 2001 between Bokaro Steel City and Ranchi. Two time tables were announced together during announcement of extension first one for shortwhile to avoid problems of passengers those who had already bought tickets having printed earlier departure time of their boarding stations than second and the time of first schedule was same as before extension between Howrah and Gomoh schedule in this direction only and advanced reservation period was of 30 days then. First timetable was for shortwhile like this: HWH 0645 RNC 1330, RNC 1400 HWH 2115. The original timetable was announced together was like this:
HWH 0605 (subsequently changed to 0615)
DGR...
more... 0745/0747
RNG No halt
ASN 0817/0820 (might have been 0814/0817 - mostprobably not)
DHN 0906/0910 (unchanged when HWH departure susequently changed to 0615)
GMO 0930/0945
CRP No halt
BKSC 1027/1032
MURI 1130/1132 (halting time 2 minutes same arrival/ departure might have been +/- 1 minute)
RNC 1310
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RNC 1340
MURI 1515/1517
BKSC 1620/1625 (might have been 1625/1630)
CRP No halt
GMO 1710/1725
DHN 1746/1750
ASN 1832/1835
RNG No halt
DGR 1900/1902
HWH 2115
Times of India - the heading was different when it was viewed by me by google search - may be because of technical reason and being old page: Oct 29, 2001 — this story is from October 29, 2001 ... shatabdi to ranchi the route of 2019 up howrah- bokaro shatabdi express has been extended and will go up to ranchi from monday. the 2020 dn ranchi-kolkata ... october 28.