Even with the suggested route, Raebareli, Amethi and Pratapgarh would have been touched and Allahabad and beyond is already covered by Sanghamitra Exp. The new train could have been used to provide Superfast connectivity between 2 million plus cities of Lucknow-Kanpur on one hand and Nagpur-Hyderabad-Bangalore on the other. Most of the NER trains, like this one, are very slow.