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Right now, only Kalka Mail is the only direct train from HWH to CDG, which too is almost full throughout the year. So this chain may be helpful.

5271/Σ HWH-Chandigarh Biweekly chain ΣChain


Created: Mar 25 2012 (10:21) by 12301_KOLKATA_RAJDHA^~

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General Travel
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Sep 15 (22:23)   12273/Howrah - New Delhi Duronto Express | DHN/Dhanbad Junction (9 PFs)
PS9C~
PS9C~   597 blog posts
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Let me share a story with you. Because I'm not very old, during my childhood and early pre-teen years, the internet was widely accessible. I've always been passionate about trains, and as a young rail enthusiast, I would spend time researching different types of trains, watching videos and vlogs on YouTube, checking their average speeds, and so on.

When I first learned about Duronto trains, they represented the ultimate dream for a young train enthusiast like me. I was captivated and amazed by the idea of traveling from source to destination with
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minimal stops. This is something I always fantasized about.

Even in the vlogs and videos I watched, Duronto trains appeared to receive the same high priority as Rajdhani Express trains.

As I've grown older, I've noticed a decline in various premium trains such as the Rajdhani and Shatabdi, but the most significant impact has been on the Duronto trains.

From ill-conceived extensions, such as the Sealdah Duronto, to unnecessary diversions like the Howrah Duronto, many of these trains, including the Howrah–CSMT Duronto, are experiencing severe punctuality issues. Additionally, more and more stops are being added to the Duronto trains, further diminishing their original appeal.

Only VBs seem to be gaining all kind of traction thesedays.

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Sep 15 (22:54)
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Dr.AtulSinha~   4298 blog posts
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The only mistake of Duronto series is that the train was inaugurated by Mamata. The series could have been so much more than what they currently are, connecting many of the metropolitan regions with each other. The train could have been the Rajdhani between state capitals at large distances, but the current govt would never revive and add new trains to this series since there is a good chance that opposition would claim the trains as their own hard work. Now this work would hopefully be done by the Sleeper Vande Bharat trains.
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Sep 16 (08:21)
PS9C~
PS9C~   597 blog posts
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I agree, Durontos could've been in much better shape and form if only the government and railway ministry worked on it.

Durontos also served Sleeper passengers along with AC passengers, providing premium quality facilities to both of them and good speed too.
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Sep 16 (08:47)
thewanderer^~
thewanderer^~   3166 blog posts
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What happened to Durontos later happened to Humsafars and will happen to VBEs as well once the govt changes. And govt will obviously change some day. Every govt overdoes their own category of trains and then the next govt replaces previous govt routes with their own category. Duronto was actually introduced on the original Rajdhani concept. When Rajdhani was first introduced, it also had technical halts, later changed to commercial.
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Sep 16 (09:30)
PS9C~
PS9C~   597 blog posts
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That's true too.
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Sep 19 (23:35)
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Sanz~   8573 blog posts
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12259 Sdah bikaner still goes empty in Ndls_Bikaner. While it wud have been better to extend it to Katra as we still dont have connectivity between kolkata and Katra
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Sep 17 (11:42)   12273/Howrah - New Delhi Duronto Express | PNBE/Patna Junction (10 PFs) | HWH/WAP-7/37451
Siddharth98^~
Siddharth98^~   68681 blog posts
Entry# 6192692            Tags   Past Edits
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HWH WAP7 37451 leading 12273 Howrah - New Delhi Duronto standing at PF4.
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Mar 24 (15:48)   22222/Hazrat Nizamuddin - Mumbai CSMT Rajdhani Express | NZM/Hazrat Nizamuddin (9 PFs)
RailwayFiles~
RailwayFiles~   277 blog posts
Entry# 6007860            Tags   Past Edits
Who do you think is the best Railway Minister till date. Under whose tenure Indian Railways was/is doing better ?

आपके अनुसार अब तक का सबसे अच्छा रेल मंत्री कौन है? किसके कार्यकाल में भारतीय रेलवे बेहतर प्रदर्शन कर रही थी/कर रही है?
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Nitish Kumar / नितीश कुमार
2%
2
Lalu Prasad Yadav / लालू प्रसाद यादव
17%
20
Mamata Banerjee / ममता बेनर्जी
3%
3
Dinesh Trivedi / दिनेश त्रिवेदी
0%
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Pavan Kumar Bansal / पवन कुमार बंसल
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Mallikarjun Kharge / मल्लिकार्जुन खरगे
0%
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D V Sadananda Gowda / डी वि सदानंद गौड़ा
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Suresh Prabhu / सुरेश प्रभु
49%
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Piyush Goyal / पियूष गोयल
2%
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Ashwani Vaishnav / अश्विनी वैष्णव
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Sep 04 (19:28)   Fake Food Items Served on Premium Indian Trains

Exynos9611~   19807 news posts
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Indian Railways: शताब्दी ट्रेन में नकली मक्खन की शिकायत पर विवाद, पैंट्री मैनेजर दुर्व्यवहार पर उतरा

A passenger on the New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express (Train No. 12011) found that the butter served with his breakfast was actually ghee, not the advertised butter from a renowned company. This incident exposed the serving of fake food items on premium trains in India.

New Delhi se Kalka jaane wali Shatabdi Express (Train No. 12011) mein, ek passenger ko breakfast ke saath famous company ki butter ki tikki mili, par check karne pe pata chala ki ye ghee tha, butter nahi! Isse pata chala ki India ke premium trains mein fake food items serve kiye...
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Feb 09 2018 (19:50)   12273/Howrah - New Delhi Duronto Express | PNBE/Patna Junction (10 PFs) | GZB/WAP-7/30383
Siddharth98^~
Siddharth98^~   68681 blog posts
Entry# 3089017            Tags   Past Edits
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12273 Howrah - New Delhi Duronto standing at PF4 of Patna Junction with GZB WAP7 30383 in lead.
Loco was decorated with flowers and sweets distributed among the crew.
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Feb 09 2018 (20:46)
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SUPERMAN^~   21030 blog posts
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HD🙏
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Feb 09 2018 (21:12)
MKS^~   24660 blog posts
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Wow..Finally New Delhi Duronto at Patna..:-)
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Feb 09 2018 (21:14)
animesh^~
animesh^~   2896 blog posts
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kya coverage mila h iss train ko
HWH-CRJ-JSME-PNBE delighted
THANK U TO ALL RFs
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Feb 09 2018 (21:16)
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Re# 3089017-8              
Time key baad change ho Sakta hain ..maybe nahi ..
Jaisey ..aaj tak vs or SK ka cnb ..MGS .gnwl mein hi diya hain ..naa ki spcl seat diya hain ..
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Feb 09 2018 (23:36)
RailDiaries^~
RailDiaries^~   18754 blog posts
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VS ka Down me GNWL hai coz earlier ANVT-PNBE non stop tha aur Down ka 1st Commercial Halt PNBE hi tha.. 12367 UP ka PNBE - RLWL KIUL-PNC ka PQWL hai
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