I guess the long layover issue is gone ...the rake is being parked in the parking lines adjacent to pitlines in SBC yard and only being shunted to PF at 6'o clock in the evenig...
there were two proposal from SWR and SCR for this cause..
from SR : It was to use the rake of Charminar to run it as HYB-MAS-SBC-KCG and vice versa - Agreed and even SCR changed the CC of both these trains to match the RSA ...not sure what happened to this proposal and the train which...
more... were announced were never came to existance
from SWR : it was to use to extend the SBC SF to MYS ... it was rejected by SCR because of the king of TT being given to run between SBC-MYS as SBC SF itself already running with a stamp average of 55 ..any further increase in TT may have to lose its SF Tag as SWR is giving a Run time of 3 hours (it was not electrified and single line at the time of proposal) ..not sure about the current status..
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and regarding the 12735 GR, with lot of complaints and requests and fhights with board level by showing the stats how 12735/36 were used to give revenue with the old 7:10/7:40 arrival slots at YPR to the then arrival slots of 11AM/9:40AM and the worst of all aorund 2-4 PM departures and 4 AM arrival at SC, they got this new slot and change in the days of opeartoins.. that i swhen the fate is changed as its running mostly 100% occupation even thought its a 9 coach train and lost most of its coaches to its twin brother VSKP gr and few coahces are being used as spares ...again they changed it to 9:40 arrival in the month of January and february and it again lost its shine and used to run empty...now again its back to its 100% occupancy run ..have to see what else they are going to do with this GR..