Title: An Unsolved Riddle
It is learnt that IR has provided Stainless Steel Pure LHB Coach to:
22461 shree sakti AC exp- Covering 654 km from NDLS to SVDK
12425 NDLS JAT Raj- Covering 577 km from NDLS to JAT
12041...
more... HWH NJP SHATABDI- Covering 566 km from HWH to NJP
Apart from the above noted three two short distance popular Duronto is running with Hybrid LHB namely:
1 CSTM Nagpur Duronto----- Covering 835 km from CSTM to NGP
2 NDLS Alahabad Duronto------ Covering 632 km from NDLS to ALD
Now if LHB can be provided for all the above "Short Distance Trains"(Less than 1000 km in all cases) then what is the "Obstruction/Limitation" for providing LHB to the following popular revenue earning trains
1 12277 HWH PURI SHATABDI-------- Covering 500 km from HWH to Puri daily
2 22201 SDAH PURI DURONTO-------- Covering 518 km from SDAH to Puri triweekly
3 12267 BCT ADI Duronto------- Covering 493 km from BCT to ADI daily
4 12205 NDLS DDN AC EXP---- Covering 308 kms from NDLS to DDN daily
Moreover 22313 SDAH SVDK Prm has yet not been started and there is no guarantee whether this will actually start or will get LHB if started.......
In addition to this many other Popular Long Distance mail/exp are in this list running with 25/30 year old ICF coaches...... What will be the fate of those??
LHBs are expensive coaches and are not meant for every train rather for those which have a "Great Demand" all over the year along with high popularity. Before providing LHB to any mail/exp this point is required to be kept in consideration on the part of IR.
