Sri Jagannath Express is as good as Abada Prasad - Brandon Buffard

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I had travelled by 18520 Mumbai LTT – Visakhapatnam Express from Secunderabad to Visakhapatnam last week, says a regular traveller Uday Bhaskar. The train was jam packed with passengers. Our coach was dirty and the doors were not getting locked.
I came to know through a fellow-passenger that the train had reached Mumbai (LTT) around 5 a.m. and was kept idle for two hours before starting on its return journey from 7 a.m.I want to know from East Coast Railway (as the rake belongs to it) why it had prepared the...
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timetable in such a fashion where there is no time available for even secondary maintenance at LTT?
The one way distance is 1,500 km. It means that there will be no maintenance for 3,000 km. Secondly, the journey was nice till Bezawada but from Gudivada many people with general tickets got into the reserved coaches.
From Rajahmundry, though this train had no halts, it stopped at several places and finally reached Visakhapatnam at 12.10 p.m., one hour behind schedule.
It was taken on platform no. 5 even though PF s 1 and 8 were free. Trains coming from or going towards Bhubaneswar are given preference in the allotment of platforms. I wonder why E Co R is allotting PF no. 5 to LTT-Vizag 18520, which brings around 1,500 passengers on an average.
I suggest that this train should be speeded up and the running time reduced. Train no. 12718 Ratnachal is overcrowded and another Intercity Express should be introduced from Vijayawada to Visakhapatnam via Gudivada and Bhimavaram, 22848 LTT-Visakhapatnam Superfast Express (via Nagpur) should be made daily to reduce the rush on 18520 and all trains originating/terminating at Visakhapatnam should start either from PF 1 or PF 8.