Nope , Earlier this train was referred as Kurla express departing at 6:15 from Bangalore city station , it used to have almost the same schedule even in 1997 too. I used to see this train daily at a place called Tiptur. Those days this was the only train to skip Tiptur. It was running 6 days a week. Later it got the name as Chalukya express and the Mysore Counterpart got the name as Sharavathi , similarly Hubli intercity got the name as Siddhaganga intercity.