* Gatimaan & BPL Shatabdi should complement each other rather than compete with.
* Gatimaan should depart from Delhi at morning to facilitate the tourists esp foreign tourists to visit Agra and come back on the same day. And Shatabdi may depart at morning from Bhopal/HBJ.
* IR doing tripling/Quadrupling on Delhi-BPL route at a brisk pace to address the problem of track-saturation
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more... Recently RM has directed the IR officials to upgrade track so at to operate the Gatimaan at 160kmph on its entire run rather than Delhi-Agra stretch only.
* Once above 2 steps are done in coming years, Delhi-BPL Shatabdi/Gatimaan shall be able to do the run in about 7 hrs instead of 8:30 hrs currently, thereby making these trains much more convenient to and popular amongst the paxs.