There is interlocking work going on at BBK for finetuning stuff towards Ayodhya side due to which trains towards Gonda side are canceled. Then why is this train not canceled considering it comes straight via the affected route? They cancelled all three trains; Barauni Gwalior, Lucknow Barauni and Intercity so that a common person has no option in the morning of coming to Lucknow. But they kept the VB, why? Taking the ICE example alone, that has more than double the number of coaches than this 8 coached train and each one of them is full, either via reservation or via daily pax. I am not even sure if the VB sees full occupancy on an end to end basis. Furthur, the ICE serves both the lower class and upper class by having 2S and CC config The VB only serves the upper class.To furthur complicate things, VB only has couple...
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of stops in middle, making it even tougher for intervening stations folks to board/deboard[ let's say from Khalilabad to Barabanki, or Badshahnagar where tons of folks deboard which this train doesn't even touch].

Only a complete fool will let a train that carries more than twice the population load be canceled in lieu of a pseudo premium train that probably might not even run full. IR doesn't need a bus lobby to destroy itself. They are easily doing it themselves.