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Posted: Oct 22 2015 (16:10)
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Last Response: Nov 03 2015 (11:06)
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Last Response: Nov 03 2015 (11:06)
Many a times I have seen people were debating over late running of trains in NCR. I never get involved in any of these debates. Last week I went to visit my maternal aunt(Mausi) in Allahabad for some family function. My maternal Uncle (Mausa) works in NCR as a senior sectional engineer. So, it was a golden opportunity for me to ask him why trains run late in railways, especially in NCR? Discussion was very healthy and interesting. He told me railway tracks are over-saturated with traffic in NCR. Every year railways starts new trains on existing infrastructure which was originally designed to handle less than quarter of traffic(1/4) of present day. Right now NCR tracks are 400% saturated, than it was originally designed. He also told me that 70% of revenue are generated from freight traffic and Railways incures loss from passenger traffic from very first day of operation. He...
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On time running superfast trains getting status higher ?
Thats only hypothetical and on papers. In reality, the train which has bigger "brand" name and specially of home zone runs ahead,irrespective of the late schedule it causes for behind superfast train.
This is the reason why an on time superfast train with least halts and average speed of nearly 70kmph runs behind a late superfast train which has more halts and less average speed.
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Thats only hypothetical and on papers. In reality, the train which has bigger "brand" name and specially of home zone runs ahead,irrespective of the late schedule it causes for behind superfast train.
This is the reason why an on time superfast train with least halts and average speed of nearly 70kmph runs behind a late superfast train which has more halts and less average speed.
So...
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