I have travelled in this train on 9/7/2010 from Kannur (CAN) to Dehradun (DDN). I would like to share some of the valuable information regarding this train, which might be useful for others also.
1. The train consist of 4 sleeper class, 1 AC 3 tier and 6 General Compartment. Since the number of reserved coaches are limited, passengers are finding difficult to get reservation even before a month.
2. This train doesnot have a pantry car. I have seen the difficulties faced by the co-passengers in this regard, Especially people travelling with...
more... kids. So if any one wishes to travel by this train, Please don't forget to carry packed food.
3. All the coaches are old ones. Charging points in all the compartment requires repair. So get a spare battery charged, in case if you want to make urgent calls.
4. The train reaches every station well in advance except the dehradun(the destination). The train reached Nizamudheen station around 13:20 rather to its scheduled arrival of 14:40. So we got a precious 1h 30 min to make a small purchase.