Everywhere MPs pressurise IR to run some regular train, but here MPs have to get involved even to run a once a year Special !!!
This would not have been the answer had it been some inter-state train.
Do u know if Hatia-YPR, that slot trains and YPR-HWH exp have SM at BYPL yard, because I had seen them coming from that side at YPR once ?? Cant such trains be started from Banaswadi as they occupy pf at peak time 8:30AM and 7:30AM, anyhow all those trains get empty at KJM.
And...
more... what is the reason behind shifting Hampi via YPR when YPR itself is congested ?? At SBC, I had seen PFs-5,6,7 can handle Hampi in the morning hours and they would be empty in the night. But PF-8,9, 10 would be heavily congested in the morning as well as night.