It's not a big problem to reduce the time taken for reversal. A reversal isn't the end of the world. Taking an additional 20-30 minutes in a long distance journey to halt at a major junction is worth the service passengers get out of it.
Why to force people to pay large amounts of money AND go through the hassle of getting down at a random station, finding road transport, going to a another station and boarding a train again, when the train already goes to the junction?
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In the western countries (and even British India), junctions are epicentres of traffic and act as integrated transit depots with road transport and trains. They operate on an efficient hub-and-spokes model minimizing the number of changes in modes of transport. It is high time we employed the same model.