Summary of Day 1 run :
1)Beyond expectations arrived Vijayawada 10 minutes before time with an avg speed of 87.5 KM/HR.Great run between VSKP-RJY-BZA.

2)Platform 1 to Warangal main line crawling at BZA + ahead frieght traffic caused 40 Minutes delay to reach Khammam station.
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3) Good pickup of speed and slack ensured only 15 minutes delay.

RETURN JOURNEY

1) Started 05 minutes late and maintained ON time till Khammam. BZA N West ,BZA bulb cabin crawling caused 10 minutes delay to reach BZA PF1. Departed 19.25

2) Crawling continued till Gunadala and maintained good run later. RJY crawling continued till Kesavaram might be due to frieght traffic ahead.

3) Burning of track started from there till Duvvada.

Reached VSKP 5 minutes early.

Covering BZA-VSKP in 4.05 hours. (Had Dep from BZA is around 18.30 VSKP arrival 22.45 it would have been a flight killer).

Well. I was on board 18519 VSKP to SC. 18519 departed BZA at 9.55 and while gaining 110 speed at RYP immediately ACP happened due to some family boarded wrong train and for reset of ACP and train got start back it took 10-12mins and by that time VB started from BZA Nd was tale of 18519.. and for sake of VB all mainline were clear and Unfortunately due to friegths blocking the loops 18519 had to be ahead till Chintakani and at Chintakani 18519 took reverse Loop fot tasting the VB 130kmph OT and in all this game before 18519 there was TPTY SC AC Special running by 8hrs late ( Due to RS from TPTY , as 22706 came late due to fog ). This AC special departed BZA 8.30 and reached MDR 10.20 so it trolled 18519 from there and later the AC special arrived at MABD and...
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got OT by VB and the delay of 48mins got reduced to 38mins by WL. After clearing the path towards KZJ post KZJ it got clearance fully and slack utilisation helped and made reach VB at SC PF 10 by 12mins late. Unfortunately 18519 got trolled by AC Special from MABD to MLY badly as almost all loops were blocked.

A Jam packed VSKP-BZA-SC #Vandebharat 20833 will run today. Many passengers in telugu states will get taste of new age train set.

Looking at charts at VSKP 40% End-End passengers & 40% BZA deboarding passengers (Will be filled by SC bound passengs again from here) . There is a good demand from RJY (Feel sorry for less quota).
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I will not wonder in future if SLO gets an experimental halt. (General location chart if allocated will fill train even on off days from SLO, RJY) .