◾53047 is placed on Platform No.6 of Howrah at around 16:00 Hrs., seats get filled immediately.
◾Passengers from Bandel/Barddhaman gets connection with 12339/12340 Coalfield Express at Panagarh or Durgapur
[i.e,
•If You want to board 12339, you can board 53047 at Bandel/Barddhaman (where Coalfield has no halt) and deboard at Panagarh and change to 12339 which comes 10 mins after it.
•SIMILARLY...
more... in return, if you want to ge down at Barddhaman/Bandel (where 12340 has no halt), you can get down at Panagarh from 12340 and board 53048 till Barddhaman/Bandel]
◾In spite of being a Passenger train, 53047 gets high priority in between Howrah and Siuri,after which it gets delayed, while 53048 usually remains On Time upto Hiwrah
◾Neat and clean coaches,clean toilets mostly.
◾Charging points present in few coaches (work well)
◾Introduced in 1984 as 217/218 Howrah-Sainthia Mayurakshi Express by Shri A.B.A Ghani Khan Chaudhary & Shri Pranab Mukherjee, ran with Electric traction between Howrah and Andal, thereafter diesel loco was given (extended to Rampurhat from 1988)
*During that time UP train departed Howrah at 16:25 & arrived Barddhaman at 17:47,ran via-Dankuni with NO STOPS between Howrah and Barddhaman.
*While DN train departed Barddhaman at 09:28 & arrived Howrah at 11:35,ran via-Bandel with NO STOPS between Barddhaman and Howrah (to avoid overtake by Bombay Mail via-Gaya in Chord line). Later commercial stop at Bandel was given.
*During 2000-04,up train departed Howrah at 16:50 & ran via-Dankuni
*It had few general coaches, some Reserved Chair Cars,AC Chair Car and even a Non-AC First Class
*During 2011-12,had Pataka Tea advertisement over all coaches.