Very bad departure timing at 5.40 am, only suitable for people staying in Kolkata and very nearby, who can avail ola, uber or has a personal vehicle. For others not at all possible to reach HWH @ 5.40 am to catch train specially in winters very difficult. This train will loose passengers for sure.
Same for TATA departure, many passengers from KGP and nearby used to catch Barbil JS to reach TATA to catch PUNE and MUMBAI Duronto from TATA, now that option is also gone. Theis Duronto will surely loose a huge number of passengers over SER.

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Some very important halts like Kharagpur, Rourkela, Raipur needs to be given for this Duronto

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Agree.. HWH Metro will help a lot and there must be early morning start and late night service also, unlike other services in Kolkata and like other metro cities, the sleep time must be brought down in Kolkata not only metro but also Bus services (Atleast Govt. ones).

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Yes agree to this as well... they only commercialized the tech halts, which should not have been, earlier it was just end to end train, later tech halts were converted to commercial halts, in that case Big cities like ROU, Raipur (State Capital) and KGP, JSG are missed. And place like Adra got Duronto halt!!

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Raipur halt sanctioned for Pune Howrah n Mumbai Howrah Durontos

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