Tutari Express (ex. Rajya Rani Exp) is truly a lifeline for passengers from Ratnagiri & Sindhudurg districts. One of the very few trains offering seats under General quota to Passengers travelling from Ratnagiri onwards towards Mumbai. Almost all other trains (even the ones starting from Goa) have RL quota for Ratnagiri/CHI/KHED etc towards Mumbai.
Good to see that CR is taking good care of the train as far as maintenance is concerned.
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Sadly this train receives the lowest patronage on its entire route. I remember the time it used to run back-to-back with Konkan Kanya in Down Direction. But with the new TT in force, other trains were pressed into service between Tutari & KK (like Goa Skr, LTT-MAO/KRMI, NZM-TVC/ERS SF) by adding huge slack in Tutari's schedule. Since these other trains run late most of the time, Tutari too gets delayed unnecessarily.
Hope they speed it up & increase the coaches to 22/24 in the near future.