Trains are not always introduced only to carry end to end traffic.
It has been amply stressed that Konkan Region to Bhusawal/ Akola/ Badnera(Amravati)/ Wardha/ Nagpur/ Gondia/ Durg/ Raipur/ Bilaspur/ Rourkela/ TataNagar/ KGP to Kolkata & adjoining area is main focus.
The HWH-TVC train is not intended for the end to end connection. It is intended as a single train solution to the various non-daily connections possible between the two clusters given with one destination from each cluster. In other words instead of having many non-daily connections between many destinations, it...
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is better to have a daily connection encompassing all the destination which will serve the purpose of all.
The whole route shall be on HWH-NGP-Mumbai, Mumbai-MAO-TVC routes which are high passenger demand routes. Targetted traffic is mainly intermediate traffic between
(1) konkan region (railway) (Manglore-Goa-Roha i.e. 750 kms) with (BSL-HWH stretch1500 kms)
(2) Direct connectivity of Navi Mumbai with (BSL-HWH 1500 kms stretch) which is very important
(3) Connectivity of densely populated (Manglore – Kozhikode-Shoranur) 300 km stretch to Central & Eastern India is poor as compared to connectivity of Ernakulam-TVC (via kottayam).
This train may not be preferred choice for TVC – HWH/KGP journey and can accordingly can terminated at Ernakulam instead of TVC. But again the connectivity via kottayam is good but via alleppy is not so good, and also TVC shall be getting several new connectivities with important towns like (Nashik/ Bhusawal/ Akola/ Badnera(Amravti), Rourkela/ Tata Nagar etc. Further extension beyond TVC by about 90 kms to Kanyakumari shall make the train more useful.