Bhor Ghat section - ये ना ही है जन्नत, ना ही इधर है कोई पर्वत, यह जगह है हर एक Railfan का जो सबकी पूरी करे मन्नत - Sahil Khandare

The problem is that the train changes zones twice over a stretch of 700 kilometres and each zone has its own handover slack. I saw this happen on the Mumbai CSMT Nizamuddin Rajdhani where the train was delayed during handover at Karonda and Mohasa- it stopped many times and crawled. We reached Gwalior 20 minutes late and had an additional 25 minutes delay at Mathura outer. We made up some time near Palwal but still reached Nizamuddin at 10:31 AM, though online arrival data showed we arrived at Nizamuddin while we were still crawling through Tughlakabad. Mathura and Agasod are real bottlenecks of NCR. The terrain is not the issue here as Mr. Iyer pointed out; this Rajdhani can cover the distance in record time. Although one might need to verify online arrival data. The same could be true for this Vande Bharat as there is no competition in terms of premium trains during its slot.