Does South Western Railway mean only Bengaluru and Karnataka also mean only Bengaluru !!! Are there no other places in KA & SWR !!! People of Belagavi, Kalburgi, Ballari, Vijayapura, Raichur, Mangaluru have been requesting for trains to the capital since decades, they are not even cared. No pitlines at any of these stations, leave Kalburgi which is not utilised, thanks to SWR, SCR, SR & CR. There is so much demand to run DEMUs in Gadag-Hubbali-Dharwad and Davangere-Hubbali-Dharwad lines but SWR/IR are deaf to those demands.
The pitlines coming up at BYPL will also be utilised to run inter-state trains and will be made useless for the state.