पश्चिम रेलवे की शान, पश्चिम सुपरफास्ट एक्सप्रेस मेरी जान - Abdul Rehman

An article regarding the extra travel time this train has to go through.
• The Pune Division of the Central Railway, to which the train belongs, squarely blamed the Railway Board for the delay.
• The train, which used to take three hours to reach Satara from Pune (145 km) earlier, now takes five hours.
• An official said that it is to give way...
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for seven other trains.
• Many from coastal Karnataka, who have established businesses, including hotels in Belagavi and surrounding regions, depend on Train No 11097/98 for their travel, though it is a weekly service
• Railway officials too subscribed to the view and said that close to a 100 passengers from Mangaluru use the train regularly. They [officials] are at the receiving end of the passengers’ wrath, an officer said.
• Train reaches Mangaluru close to midnight instead of the earlier 7.35 p.m. Since Mangaluru Junction is away from the main road, one has to be at the mercy of autorickshaw drivers and pay through one’s nose to reach the city.
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