Who says South India does not have Gatimaan. It is called Vaigai Express. - Thamizh Maran

Travelled in this train on 11 september 2016. I would advise fellow travellers, if possible don't book your tickets in SL class of this train, especially single males or males travelling in group. The enunchs/hijras would start bothering you right after train departing from hatia. But situation gets worse after 1am i.e. from baragarh road (i don't remember station name correctly as it was dark outside). 3 enunchs came in sleeper coaches and started slapping the WL passengers sleeping at doors to wake them up and forcibly took money from them. They did the same in whole coach. And every male passenger was forced to give atleast 10 rs. 5 rupee note not accepted. Were they out of their mind or what, extorting money at mid of night? After that from Raygada till renigunta you can expect that at every stop (only scheduled stops, this train hardly has any...
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unscheduled stops, in my journey unscheduled stop was only twice for 2 -4 mins before vizianagram and 10 min at vijaywada outer) enunchs will come and demand money and most of them do such " nautanki" that ultimately you pay. So do book your tickets wisely. I don't guarantee that they don't enter AC coaches, only assuming as normally they demand money only in SL coaches.