No problem regarding demand. But What about punctuality? From more than an year this train is facing the problem of timing and people will not prefer to travel end to end, first of all day time travel, second delay, due to which odd time arrivals happen.

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Rescheduled trains generally go vacant upto some extent, just have to check on the day of departure

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We railfans or members of this forum need to understand that we form a very small community in numbers to travelling public members ratio and members may not be travelling in all trains from the region.

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Delay occurs with this train because it's time table is wrong. Many sections are there where trains have maximum speed limits. But in order to make it qualify as superfast train and in order to levy superfast surcharge, speed of this train has forcibly been kept more than the maximum speed limits in those sections. So delay has to occur. Remove superfast tag and let this train arrive Tata around 9:30 am with same departure time of 3:30 pm from VSKP. Then see how timely it will run. I had told earlier also that this train used to run timely before getting converted into superfast, because at that time the time table was made correctly.

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Let Tatanagar division introduce Biweekly from Tata to Benguluru via Raipur Ballashah and SC. Vskp has enough of demand for tatanagar for dedicated train. The present Tata Yesvantpur weekly should also be diverted via Raipur SC.

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Totally agreed. And should be categorized as SF instead of Mail/Exp. Because on this route most of the trains run as express and gets heavily delayed. Example:08840 running by 8+ hrs late.

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How is this possible? This train is dedicated for HCNR, KDJR, BSPX, DPS and CBSA region. It was especially introduced for these areas in 2014 as special train and then for the benefit of the people of these areas, it was made permanent. Later another weekly TATA - VSKP Special Express was also introduced in this route which ran for few years. Also proposal was made in 2022 to make this train bi-weekly. At that time it was always running with 50% occupancy. Now when it is running with 100% occupancy, then suddenly how come talks about its route changing is arising?

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Main discussion is not about route change, its about extension till hyderabad or a direct tata kollam train because of rsa, since railway is not able to manage its delay, always rescheduled by 3 hours.

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Snehashish_railfan^~ has mentioned above -
"Ecor proposal diya hai iska route via - SBPY - JSG-ROU pe divert karne ke liye.

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Earlier the train used to leave Vskp at 1930 and arrive at 1030( approx timings) and return in afternoon. After lockdown a slot is made at 1530 Vskp for all weeklies towards BBS. So this train is arriving at morning at Tatanagar. SER instead of providing dep in evening made it to leave in morning. Associations have put proposal to make it triweekly and restore to afternoon or evening as Tatanagar Allepey is now delinked and proposal is also put up for triweekly.

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Though its return time table is in day time. Practically it always gets rescheduled by more than three hours and then reaches Visakhapatnam about four to five hours late i.e. in morning around 4 am which is the same time as earlier time table. So practically its return is always overnight.

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Yesterday rescheduled by 1.30 hrs and reached 6.40 hrs late @05.25 AM instead of 10.45 PM😝😝🤪 started from TATA 4 hrs late and on route delay 2 hrs.

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This is happening on its every run. Even railways knows that it can't run this train according to the superfast time table. Superfast tag is only to extract extra money from passengers by the name of superfast surcharge.

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Overnite train from Tata to VSKP and vice versa is very much needed. Loss of Tata-Allp slip has not ended up well for Tata passengers. They lost the only daily connectivity to Vizag. Tata-ERS runs at an odd time and doesn't touch Vizag which is of no benefit at all.

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