Agree. The time taken or alloted to Shatabdi in some section is more than which is actually required. Sections like AGC-MRA, GWL-JHS and LAR-BPL can easily cut the 20-25 minutes from its Time Table. Shatabdi being a Premium train and an alternate to the Dedicated Rajdhani to Bhopal can have the top most priority over other trains, by this IR can actually save time and let it arrive NDLS before 11 PM. In return even with 150kmph MPS it is taking almost same/more time as a 130 kmph train between AGC-MTJ-NDLS, not to mention that the 130 MPS trains also have some slack while entering Delhi. So some time can be cut from there too. I know because of ZBTT most the arrivals departures are also changed at NDLS but still some cut down should have been done in its TT. But seemingly IR is going to boast about the speedup...
more... its going to get after getting replaced by VB.