In my opinion, this train should be spilt up into two garibrath trains consisting of 10 and 8 rakes or 9 and 9 rakes and should be run simultaneously as two different trains in two different routes. They should be later joined together for the RNC - NDLS trip. I think this is the only way of maximum utilisation of the rakes and dealing with the less demand of such train in the new routes and also getting it back at RNC Station by Monday Morning for its RNC - NDLS Trip. Failure has been resulted in trying to run the full 18 Rake train through the less demanded route. The regular daily train running in this route is 18415/18416 - Barbil (BBN) - Puri (PURI) - Barbil (BBN) Intercity Express which has only one AC Chair Car and 9 Non AC Chair Cars including the Guard Coaches. This is an...
more... ECoR Train. SER should note the Rake Composition and numbers of rakes of the regular trains running through this route. In my opinion one of the 8 or 9 raked Garibrath train should be run Ranchi (RNC) to Visakhapatnam (VSKP) as the cancelled train No. 08677/08678 during the Diwali Period from 31/10/2015 to 21/11/2015 keeping the same timings as that train No. 08677/08678.