I think max of 30 min will be removed if speeded up....because to decrease 1h 15 min...it will require priority like TVC MAS Mail,Kovai SF...from SRR-ED we have MAQ-MS exp in front which is a super crawler....and we also have raptisagar clash bet GDR and TEL if speeded up....This schedule would suffice....it is fast enough...All i want is return 17230 should be speeded up with same timings as 17229.....17230 is the king of slack.....even if it gets overtaken by both Raptisagar series and YPR-HWH SF bet TEL and GDR...it would still reach on time at all stations starting from GDR...

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No difference with the existing Sabari.. Don't understand the need for this train.

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Pls Flags-/blog/post/2370020

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I designed this train before the announcement of speed up of sabari...About 2 years ago or so in my previous account..../train/32381/1009/834 would be the train....

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Very true Dan. There is also political reasons for this as you know. We now have 7 stops between Karunagapalli to Kottayam in a span of 70 KMS! This is too much for a long distance train. See the stops - Karunagapalli, Kayamkulam, Mavelikkara, Chengannur, Tiruvalla, Changanassery & Kottayam.
Have seen some fights in few forums where there is heated debate that a person from Tiruvalla cannot imagine to travel mere 8 or 9 kms and take train from Changanassery (district changes!!) This is an issue for almost all trains in Kerala in TVC-KTYM. How can we speed up trains.

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do U remember the schedule before when sabari used to start from hyb at 12:00 and reach Cbe at 08:30,now there is one hour increase and in between the mentioned stations and a decrease in tt of kerala....the train used to run perfectly fine back then also...I don't know why all this new tt had to be proposEd...all I did is combine both of them and give good runs in where it can run like a superfast ie gnt-ru and kpd-cbe

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Yes...yes... i fondly remember.... enth cheyyana. Aage oru sabari und. Maduthu...

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But on another thought the 17229 takes 40 min less time of travel instead of all the same halts and wef 26-03-2017...17229 will be speeded up...inspite of such a free slot 17230 has 40 min more travel time increased andand should atleast have same time of travel as 17229...

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