New sensation of Indore
20911 Indore-Bhopal Vande Bharat Express getting ready for its departure from platform 1 of Indore Jn.
Date of Click: 30 June 2023.

I was waiting for its competitor and Super...
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Hit 19323 DADN-BPL Intercity Express which was scheduled to arrive at the same platform just minutes after VB departure.

The rush that you see on platform are all Bhopal going passengers but only a fraction of it went in VB. Everyone was taking selfies with the new talk of town. 1 thing that I observed that on the contrary to the data that we get from charting that only 40-60 passengers have booked in the train I saw almost 150-200 passengers actually boarded the train.

I also think that there is a strategy to place both VB and Intercity at same platform, to attract potential passengers because I heard a lot of people saying " Kabhi try karte hai Vande Bharat ko bhi (Let's try Vande Bharat someday)", also scheduled departure of Intercity is 6:35 AM but at INDB now they are showing INDB arrival at 6:40 and departure at 6:45, I travelled in it today and observed that IR is now deliberately delayed the intercity because it was running unconventionally slow (avg wise) and getting unscheduled halts as well. It departed 12-15 minutes after VB from INDB and reached Bhopal 2 hours after VB at 11:28 AM today. I think IR is subtly trying to project VB as better train in the subconsciousness of passengers (maybe I could be easily wrong here)