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Blog Entry# 5767228
Posted: Jul 02 2023 (17:42)

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Last Response: Jul 03 2023 (01:22)
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Jul 02 2023 (17:42)   12842/Coromandel Express (PT) | HWH/Howrah Junction (23 PFs) | SRC/WAP-7
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I feel like the standardization of Rakes and decrease of Sleeper coaches has caused a lot of confusion and issues. Not to mention the cramped up coaches with Unreserved passengers, causing an inconvenience to reserved passengers. As a result, I have a solution up my sleeve that might work, please provide any suggestions as follows.
1) We know that there are two dedicated trains running between MAS and HWH with huge crowds, each 22 coaches.
2) These trains can be split into 3 trains, 2 16 Coaches with all AC coaches with SF
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priority and 1 Coach train with all Non AC and Sleeper Coaches with lower priority
First train - Coromandel AC SF Express
CC - EOG 1 HCPV 1 B 12 A 3 H1
Second Train - Chennai Howrah AC SF Mail
CC - EOG 1 HCPV 1 M 7 B 3 A 2 HA1 PC 1
Third Train - Chennai Howrah Express
CC - EOG 1 SLR 1 GEN 4 S 10
3) If this is done on a larger level all over railways, This will require IR to do a huge makeover and follow the foot steps of other countries where lengths of Trains do not exceed 16 Coaches. Everyone here knows that shorter rakes will result in Faster schedules, faster acceleration and less time of travel.

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Jul 03 2023 (00:25)
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I feel like this is the only solution to checking this stuff. If they see that the train is completely AC, unreserved passengers won't board the train. You don't see unreserved people boarding in fully AC trains or Rajdhanis. Also, what about phasing out all General coaches and having only reserved coaches for Express trains. Passenger train can have some coaches but they as well should have reserved seating. The shorter rakes was keeping in mind that eventually semi high speed infrastructure will make its way in this section. I'm expecting atleast 160 KMPH which calls for shorter rakes and fully AC trains.
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I was thinking about keeping 2 SL and 3 GS but converted to 2S ie. second class reserved for these trains coz atleast by paying a slightly higher premium fare in the form of SF surcharge even those who can't afford an AC fare can enjoy some higher speed and priority but SF surcharge should be higher than present as a percentage and not fixed amount.
But if your idea is to upgrade trains to 160kph then definitely you will have to keep the rakes shorter so non AC coaches are out of the equation.
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agree with your idea of keeping out reserving the GS class in all express trains will automatically keep our the unreserved crowd away from express trains and then RPF will only have to deal with WL pax then and IRCTC should further reduce the WL they allow this will even further ease out the job of RPF.
Also i would like your opinions on SF trains still running with 8 or more SL coaches should they be too converted to AC SF and additional M/E with only SL and GS be added or already rake standardized trains be converted to full AC ones ??

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Yes, according to what I suggested, they should be separated into a normal Mail service with Gen and SL coaches and another full fledged AC SF Express. Both can be 16 Coachers. This will also help in clearing huge wait lists as there are additional coaches.
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Also some M/E are on the borderline of being a SF with some speed up they can be converted to SF.
But for additional trains to be run we will require much more railway lines then present. That issue need to be tackled too.
Need more DFCs to decongest tracks, then doubling, tripling, quadrapling should be undertaken on more routes. White elephants be it premium or non premium should be discontinued. Instead of adding VBs on every route they should try to replace Shatabdis with VB rakes. In routes like Mumbai
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ADI, NDLS SVDK, etc Shatabdis with VBs can be run.

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Jul 03 2023 (01:22)
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I think a new category should be created like premium sf express in which avg speed should be around at least 60kmph with fully reserved coaches and sf surcharge flat 200 rupees till 1000 km and after that 400 rupees this way those who want premium and faster service can go with it and i also think all mail express should be converted to sf especially those who have avg of 52kmph and also with these ir should run non ac specials on demanding routes with cc some what like 12 sl 8gs and 2 slr in icf and in. Lhb around 11 sl and 8 gs 1 slr 1 eog ir should charge special fare for these trains and only allow arp of 1 month this way they will remain occupied also arp for all trains should get cut down to 2 month
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