Poorva Express: हुगली सी बहती तेरी चाल है पूर्वा तू बेमिसाल है - Keshav Singh

Bro, Don't get me wrong! I am not against Jamtara or any other place. But you have to look up at numbers. search irctc-online charts that shows true boardings and de-boardings at a particular station. Just check it for 12303,13185,22643 at JMT. You would hardly see 1-2 bookings from JMT.

Yes it'll matter once stoppages are increased railways will eventually increase the timings eg:18184 aka Super Exp, 13007 Toofan Exp. Stops prevent a train's capability to make up any delay. I am against halts of 12333,15047 at PAN as well. Now...
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12333/34 got halts at Chausa. 12259 at KQR and now they're demanding at Sasaram as well whereas the train skips ASN and DGR.
Moreover I agree about the morning train issue. After 13020 there's no express connectivity to HWH. you should have demanded a HWH bound sf express train from JSME and MEMU services to BWN/ASN. Long distance trains should be fast with least halts. If it gets more halts you would only avoid it for ur journey.
Getting stops of 1-2 trains won’t solve the underlying issue of lack of MEMU and ICE trains.

I have travelled through this route few times, but observed minutely only couple of times when travelling upto Bardhaman. First time, we took a crawling express upto BWN [via main line ] . On returning, we missed the direct non stop local to HWH, so had to take a normal local [again via main line, I think ]. I was impressed to see that a direct local ticket was available for KGP for only Rs 40; which is impressively cheap for 200+ km.

I have a question about the main and chord...
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lines. Do the main and chord lines differ right at BWN and then merge at HWH or do they merge at some other station in between?