This is a very good train. But why does this stops at so many places in Bihar and Jharkhand combined. It travels a distance of approx. 368 km [from Buxar to Madhupur, yes there is some more distance on both sides] in both these states and stops at 7 places. While in a total distance of 844 km. in U.P. and Uttarakhand it stops at only 7 places. The average distance between two stoppages is quite high in U.P. Then, it invariably crawls in places like Shahajahanpur and literally stops everytime at Roja Jn. Why doesn't IR makes a stoppage there albeit of 2 mins so that there could be some money leveraged from these places. May be they could choose between Roja and Shahajahanpur as these two stations are just 8 km apart.
Why...
more... does it not have a stoppage at Najibabad Jn which is 65 km from Haridwar and 97 km from Moradabad? Passengers from Pauri Garhwal region have NBD as their nearest station.