I have to travel to Bangalore from Aurangabad in February with a stoppage at Hyderabad for about 5 hours.
Which is the best possible chain?
Conditions:
1) Can't leave Aurangabad before 10/2/19
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Banglore latest by 12/2/19 evening.
3) Sleeper and 3 A c preferable class.

Completed 1 year at IRI.It's been a great experience spending time here .
The people of this site are really good people. Although I wasn't active throughout the year just in patches but whatever time I spent I enjoyed and learnt a lot.
In my journey so far I don't have a long list of friends here but many people helped me understand the site.
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am mostly into blogging and imaginary trains many people helped me there.
I thank Somanko Bhai, Swanand ( yeshwantpur) Bhai, Swaroop kutti Bhai, P R Kumar sir ( Arrakkonam), Awez Bhai ( Badnera), Rizwan Bhai ( Surat),Devraj Sharma, Chinmay for your support and help.
I AM SORRY IF I HURT ANYONE KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY ON THIS SITE.
There are many more people to thank but actually I just know their screen names and not real names.
This site is not just any other forum, but a place where people like me you rail fans can come together help learn argue enjoy like a community or a family.
Thanks to all Last thing I would like to mention:
Please Support Aurangabad ( SCR ) in Rail development, its a big city with big industrial belts educational hub tourism and what not but lacks in Rail development. Help us grow.🙏

My original Bombay VT - New Delhi Rajdhani design from December 1995. While going through old files, I came across this MS Word document where I had created a possible schedule for a CR Rajdhani. So, I had to wait 24 years before seeing this train live and with a better schedule. Dreams do come true!!
Here is the screenshot of Page 1. Note the much higher running times between VT and Bhusaval - at that time, this was the fastest achieved (by Gitanjali/Pushpak). It includes loco change at Igatpuri taking 15-20 minutes.
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note the faster run between JHS and NDLS than today. This is based on what the TVC/SBC Rajdhanis used to take back then which, unfortunately, is better than today.

I like everything about this Rajdhani except the Jalgaon halt. It seems to be a more political decision. I have been opposed to it from the very beginning. Like the Durontos and other trains, it should have skipped Jalgaon and halted at Bhusaval. The latter is a divisional HQ, a big junction and has crew change facilities. Jalgaon might be a bigger town but is not big enough to warrant a Rajdhani halt.
Here is a post from Farhan Sheikh in FB:
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Shaikh: I have spent 2 years rigorously travelling between Mumbai and Jalgaon / Bhusawal....actually both the cities are well connected by road 24x7. People from JL always used to travel to BSL and take their respective trains which was not difficult at all.... But Politics have always won and will always win...."
I have personally experienced something similar having boarded trains from Mughalsarai when living in Varanasi. MGS is regarded as a satellite halt for Varanasi and people have no problem catching trains from there.
Now just to make this happen, the crew from BSL will be transported by car between Jalgaon and Bhusaval. How is it justified that the hardworking crew has to undergo this just for the JL halt? Sooner or later, BSL is going to show up as a tech halt and converted to commercial later. Also the JL halt has opened the door for others to follow - Manmad, Khandwa, Gwalior. So, how many of you would like to see this Rajdhani with 9 commercial halts? That is what I fear the most.
I have seen this happen all too often in the last 30 years. August Kranti Rajdhani started with TWO COMMERCIAL HALTS. Look where it is now. Hoping against hope my fear doesn't come true.