| Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express unable to attract passengers by RailEnquiry Admin on 06 May, 2017 - 01:04 PM | ||
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 RailEnquiry Admin | Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express unable to attract passengers on 06 May, 2017 - 01:04 PM | |
Train number 22415/22416 Visakhapatnam – New Delhi AP Express was kicked off by railway 20 months earlier with much fanfare as this was equipped with LHB coaches with much lesser halts compared to other trains. But now 20 months later this train has failed completely to attract passengers. One of the primary reasons for its poor patronage is said to be it lower average speed coupled with inconvenient timing. While East Coast Railway and South Central Railway, proposed for a change in timings and increase the speed of the train to reduce travel cost but other railway zones turned down the proposal. The rest zones were not even interested to increase the speed. People’s representatives want the arrival timings of this train in Delhi in the early hours. Interestingly, while the average speed of AP Express, which has LHB coaches, is only 59 km/hr, Swarna Jayanthi Express, with Integral Coach Factory (ICF) coaches, runs at a much higher average speed of 64 km/hr. | ||
