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Posted: Jul 25 2012 (16:56)
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Last Response: Jul 25 2012 (19:56)
9 Responses
Last Response: Jul 25 2012 (19:56)
are old mail trains (punjab mail,cstm-hwh mail,mas-hwh mail,golden temple mail etc) or superfast/express trains like coromandel,gitanjali,tamilnadu are more prestigious trains then shatabdi/jnshatabdi/duronto/raj????????
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It depends. If I have to travel from Mumbai to Jhansi, I do not have any Rajdhani/Duronto/Garib Rath on this route. So I will have to choose from among the mail/express trains available on this route. If I am traveling from Jhansi to Delhi, Shatabdi should be preferable, but the overnight super fast trains score over Shatabdi, as I can reach early in the morning and have full day to work on. So it does not have anything to do with the label of the train (Shatabdi/Rajdhani/Duronto/Garib Rath etc.). Travelers choose a train based on the parameters like day/night journey, seat availability, destination reaching time, etc.
Sir, it moreover depends upon the convenient timings, favourable class of travel, availability of seats and penetration of services to that area. For eg. take the BCT ADI sector. If I want to reach ADI by morning, I would go for Gujrat Mail (the only non- AC train to have 11 AC coaches). But instead, I have work , which will get completed only by 11pm or so, then I would try Dadar Bhuj, even though I have to travel till Dadar.