Will be white elephant for 16C
Would have been good for 8C VB.
300+ booking on first day would have been good if it was 8C, given that it would gain a little more with time.

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wahi toh bata rahe hai, this route needs Vande Bharat, actually more than many bad routes where the VBs are running. IR/ER is just missing a trick by restricting it only to Gaya, otherwise, 8C for Gaya would have been good enough. If run till BSB, those seats which go vacant post after passengers on HWH DGR, HWH ASN, and HWH DHN alight, new passengers will take up the seats between DGR BSB, ASN BSB, and DHN BSB, taking the occupancy levels beyond 100%.

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Given the TAT, it would go to Patna easily. But Patna will be hesitant to take this as Patna has to handle NJP VB(NJP VB goes on PF10 at Patna) and TATA VB in this time. 2 platforms are occupied (only 3 platform has connection of Gaya-Patna at Patna junction) and 1 empty platform will handle Gaya-Patna memu in this time.

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TAT will be fine for BSB if made to depart HWH early and reach HWH late. HWH to BSB distance is lesser than NDLS to BSB, and HWH to DDU (small Gurpa Gujhandi ghat section being the exception) is 130km/h operated, hence it can do the section easily. The only difficulty might be platform availability at BSB and traffic in the DDU BSB section, but I think that can be sorted out as well.

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If not Bsb atleast extend it to Ddu. It wud get sufficient patronage

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