If you are traveling from GKP bound for AY, take road transport any day over this train.The road distance is shorter and faster than this slack filled delay of an embarrassment. Despite humongous amount of time given to this train, it is almost always delayed at Ayodhya.Be it overtakes by special trains, hour long stoppage at Mankapur for no reason and freight xings in the MUR-AY stretch, this train usually gives average of 20 kph in some sections.
Since the same rake comes back from Ayodhya, it often starts with a delay...
more... and maintains it upto Bhatni.