DD was flop because it was not value for money. Railway was charging superfast cc fare when they should have charged the GR CC fare considering that DD seats are not as comfortable as conventional CC coaches.
If high priority is given by WCR and WR similar to what they give to the DQ in CR then the non stop intercity can cover indore bpl in 3 hours add another 15 mins to HBJ and 15 mins of slack total indb hbj will be 3hour 45 mins which imo should be slightly faster than volvos doing end to end as they too have to negotiate city traffic both in indore and bhopal. In...
more... Return this should have around 4 hours end to end run time due to single line bottle neck on dewas indore and once this gets doubled then here too it can be done in 3 hours 45 mins