Maitree Express: মৈত্রী এক্সপ্রেস - দুই বাংলার সংস্কৃতি ও ভাতৃত্বের মেলবন্ধন - Joydeep Roy

Lingampalli is not a suburb now and new city and Hyd new development is buzzing in 10km radius, while the terminals of Nampally, Kacheguda and Secunderabad are old city now. For the trains running from Limgampalli towards SC like Narayanadri, Gowthami, Cocanada are getting 40% of occupancy from Lingampalli and rest 60% from SC.

Coming to the Vande Bharat to Benguluru it should have been introduced from Secunderabad via Lingampalli Raichur Dharmavaram, Benguluru Can't as YPR is in west Benguluru while can't is in central Benguluru. But the distance in...
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this route is more then 700km and cannot be covered in 8 hours. So SCR choose shorter route from KCG to YPR via Kurnool. Both the terminals in Hyd and Benguluru are not centrally located or nearer to new city which developed due to IT industry after year 2000.

The present pattern of traffic flow of travellers between the 2 cities is from ECity I'm Benguluru Via Silk Board Marthahalli, Timfactory( indiranagar) ORR to Gachibowli, Ameerpet, Kukatpally Miyapur in Hyderabad and 150 buses are running in night making 6000 capacity which is equal to 6 trains. So Vande Bharat Sleeper should be introduced from SC via Lingampalli to SMVT Benguluru to cover new city of Hyd and east and Central parts of Benguluru where new age travellers reside. Apart from it one more triweeklu should be run in GR empty days from SC via Mahbubnagar New line Raichur upto SMVT.