The time of this train (08407) to go from Nayagarh to Banspani, a distance of 24 Km has been kept 2 Hours and 37 mins (average speed of 9 km/hr). Why is it so? No wonder that it takes 13 Hrs, 20 mins to go to from Puri to Tata and extremely low bookings is taking place in this train. All other trains in this route have been allotted 1 hour, 24 mins to go from Nayagarh to Banspani while this train has been allotted nearly double time, I think just to match its timings with the trains 18516 and 08190 from Nayagarh to Tatanagar. One main reason for low bookings in this route is also such low, lethargic time table of this route. If Railways wants to see more bookings in this route, it must increase the sectional speed of these routes - 1. Dangoaposi to Nayagarh and 2. Dangoaposi...
more... to Barbil. Dangoaposi to Barbil has also low sectional speed and Howrah Barbil Janshatabdi Express (12021/12022) has been allotted average 30 Km/Hr speed in this route.