On Sunday, the Delhi-Muzaffarpur Special Train took 23 hours to travel 700 km from Old Delhi to Varanasi. The train arrived at Cantt Station five and a half hours late, causing passengers to express their displeasure and vent their frustration on Twitter against the Railway Board. One passenger, Uday Shankar, reported...
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that the train, numbered 04044, departed half an hour late on Saturday night, instead of its scheduled 7:40 PM departure. The train, traveling via Ghaziabad, Moradabad, Bareilly, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Amethi, and Pratapgarh, reached Cantt Station at 3:40 PM on Sunday, five hours behind its scheduled arrival time of 10:40 AM.