SR had in fact speeded up the train somewhere in 2016 to make it reach alleppey at 4:30pm. Somehow there was resistance from daily passengers between ERS-Allp and it had to be revoked. Irony is there is already a passenger at 6pm & another one at 7:40pm. This train currently leaves around 6-6:15 immediately after passenger train and has been allocated around 2.5 hours running time from ERS-Allp whereas the passenger reaches in 1.5 hours. Not sure what benefit the daily passengers get with this train.