नहीं कोई गम, रेलवे से हैं हम - Aman

While admittedly, this train stops at a lot of station en route, there is one redeeming factor about this train.
You can complete your day's work in Bombay and board this train (choose an upper berth) late at night and immediately go to sleep.
When you wake up, you are in Kurduwadi which has great omlettes and veg breakfast. Your lunch is at Wadi and dinner is at Guntakal which has the best Chicken Biryani I have ever tasted in any NV Refreshment Room on Indian Railways.
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to sleep, fully satisfied and wake up in Madras.
Advantage?
Complete your day's work and board the 1028 similarly and come back to Bombay.
NO HOTEL EXPENSES in Madras if you have a day's work. If you have longer, once again hotel expenses reduced by at least one night.
Travel in comfort if you like in 2A and you won't have to endue the beggars, dirty toilets etc which others seem to get irritated about.
I love this train!
Uttam