Also no matter how much I criticized SWR even KRCL deserves fair bit of criticism. Most glaring example is Vasco Patna SF this train is a victim of SWR neglection coz it serves only 1 station in SWR and KRCL bias. Why does KRCL strand it after MAO for about 1 hour only to get overtaken by Matsyagandha express ?
Both are SF with 4 and 3 halts respectively between MAO to PNVL. Also KRCL speeded up their own crawler like Konkan Kanya to SF with 14 halts whereas an originally SF like Vasco Patna is treated like shit in KRCL.
MAO...
more... to PNVL:
Vasco Patna SF takes 10.15 hours with 4 halts
Matsyagandha takes 8.41 hours with 3 halts
And crawler Konkan Kanya speeded now SF takes 8.55 hours with 14 halts.
Absolute nonsense this is. The Matsyagandha express OT on Vasco Patna SF got to be the most useless overtake in entire IR i would say.