@Manish
@ all bloggers :
The time table for 2750 seems yet to be uploaded on the website. 2749 time table is very much uploaded.
The start of much awaited and much enquired train by the bloggers / visitors of this forum. Congratulations to all those who were anxiously waiting for this train.

@first blogger:
The IR website also confirms there is no stop at Manmad Jn. It would have been only a technical halt.

@first blogger:
There is no stop at Manmad. It may be a technical halt and you may have boarded the general compartment with a unreserved ticket.

@first blogger:
Pantry Car is not available in this train.

@first blogger:
Please take your tickets to the nearest PRS and ask for boarding change. If there is any difference in fares, it will be collected. I don't there will be diference, but just in case there is you should be prepared. Please approach the PRS Supervisor, with a letter asking for boarding change. If it is an e-ticket ID proof of one of the passengers would be required. That is the procedure laid down.
However, I think you can safely go to CSTM and board the train since I think tickets will be checked only after the train leaves the Mumbai suburban halts for the train. Good wishes.

@Murli: Mar 18 (06:03AM)
i) It will not be possible for boarding change to a station before the station from which the ticket is booked.
ii) Here in this case, there is a fare difference ( CSTM to Chennai and Dadar to Chennai) and if you try to board the train at CST, then be prepared for full fare ticket from CST to Dadar (and not only - fare difference) as well as hefty fine.
iii) Approahing PRS supervisor with a request letter will not be of any use as they are not authorised to backward station boarding change.
iv) The question will not be of any fare difference but you will have to pay independently for one more ticket from CST to Dadar as your jouney ticket has nothing to do with your travelling from CST to Dadar. If it is AC class ticket and travel, then ticket cost CST to Dadar and fine will be very heavy and you would like to avoid that.
v) The fare from CST to Dadar is ...
Sleeper AC 3-tier AC 2-tier
Rs. 120 Rs. 210 Rs. 279
and the fine for ticketless travelling. You may decide to buy another ticket itself for CST to Dadar.

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (09:39AM)
Plz add iia) in the abvoe reply ....
iia) Even if there is no fare difference between CST - Chennai and Dadar Chennai, be prepared to pay for full ticket cost and hefty fine for a travel between CST to Dadar as this will be independent travel and no question of linking to your travel from Dadar to Chennai. ..

@Murli: Mar 18 (06:03AM)
Can you re-confirm Sir ? Just difference in fare. I posted my views in earlier 2 - reply posts.

@Kapadia : Mar 18 (12:17PM)
You are correct. Boarding point station cannot be changed to a backward station.In this case it is not possible to change boarding point to Mumbai CST from Dadar.

@first blogger:
It has a technical halt at Bhubaneswar.It is not a commercial halt. So you will have to book ticket from Yeshwantpur to Howrah.

@first blogger:
You can try in this train only if you don't mind spending little extra fare amount as the ticket you will compulsorily have to buy from - Yesvantpur to Howrah. As there is a technical stop at Bhubaneswar - you will easily get down @ Bhubaneswar.

@Kapadia : Mar 11 (06:26PM)
how can you say that? just think of a complete hypothetical situation. due to some reason the train cannot take the technical halt at bhubaneshwar and the authorities decide to take that halt at some other station. like for eg, khurda road (where trains usually change drivers from howrah). the passenger wont be aware of it and the train doesnt stop at bhubaneshwar. so he will have to travel till howrah and he cannot complain that why the train didnt stop at bhubaneshwar. i know its hypothetical but it can happen. and how do you know that the ticket checker at bhubaneshwar will not harrass the passenger when he goes out with a ticket till howrah.

@anon: Mar 18 (09:51AM)
You are correct in your analysis. Tehcnical stops are for Rlys and they have all rights to add or skip any of the known technical stops. This fact has been made abundantly clear in many earlier blogs.
However it is reasonably fair to presume that technical stops will not be changed frequently by the Rlys as certain stops are indipensable for engine change, catering supply, crew change etc. Any last minute change is also possible.
Plus you run a risk of trouble at the technical stops by the ticket checker. Fellow admins may post their views on this whether officially allowed to de-board at Technical stops without inviting any kind of troubles based on duronto ticket till the destination point.
There are few bloggers' posts who have views on use of Durontos for de-boarding at technical stops. More views on technical-stops-de-boarding are welcome.

@KRISHNA:
Yes, maybe this train has a combined 1AC and 2AC coach.

@KRISHNA:
If the site gives some availability status, this means the train has 1st AC. It cannot happen that the site shows AVAILABLE 1, and no coach available.

@MST IndianRailways: Mar 17 (09:57PM)
Then why in official timetable it is given like that?

@first blogger:
As opposed to 5 seats in a row in normal trains, there are 6 seats in a row in Garib Rath trains.The chair car seats in Garib Rath are meant for short distance journeys only. It would be very uncomfortable and tiring for long journeys.

@Manish: Mar 17 (07:38PM)
Thanks!

@Manish:
Strange. With journey date being 31.5.2010, it ought to mention the Berth No. too. Has there been a change in the system so far as Duronto booking is concerened ? Not known.

@Kapadia : Mar 17 (03:38PM)
Maybe Jiteshji/MurliJi can answer.

@Manish:
The booking status is RAC-5 which has been confirmed. So berth Bo. and coach No. will be provided only at time of chart preparation

@siddharth: Mar 17 (08:57PM)
The question here is how cum the running status was WL before and now RAC?

@Kapadia : Mar 17 (03:38PM)
No strange at all.........
Being RAC there will no berth no.
@first blogger
Status change because u booked the available ticket so next person will get first RAC

@MST IndianRailways: Mar 17 (09:54PM)
the ticket has got confirmed after booking meaning status has moved up.

@Manish:
can i get circular ticket of duranto & rajdhani

@Manish: Mar 17 (04:01PM)
Not strange at all. Whenever you look up status and its shows available, we all presume we are the only ones looking up and booking! There are thousands, rather lakhs of people like us, who are doing the same thing. So you get into the queue. Note that simply seeing Waitlist/Available does not indicate HOW MANY are available. By the time you book, somebody has already done that booking before you! Plus W/L/RAC movement for any train, not only Duranto, is dynamic and in the season, you will find lots of people trying to book, cancel, and so on.
Yes since it is RAC confirmation, it will show on chart preparation. Here comes the play of Passenger Logic. There may be quotas involved such as Ladies, senior citizens, HO, other quotas etc., which are fixed, plus system logic will try to allocate seats/berths on 'family' basis i.e. two-six persons on a PNR. Therefore you will find that the CNF on RAC is made to wait for the above considerations to be worked out before allocating the actual berth on RAC/WL CNF tickets! The list is by no means exhaustive. Good wishes to all !

@anon: Mar 17 (11:32PM)
Yes you can: Here are the Rules..but in Durantos, you will NOT get the advantage of getting down at intermediate stations (you can get down, but your ticket will not be endorsed and journey will be treated as completed end to end) and in Rajdhanis it can only be to stations where it normally halts. Please contact your reservation office for issue of such tickets; Best of luck and good wishes. Taken from indianrailways.gov.in
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Circular Journey Ticket (AS ON 1.5.07)
(1) Normal rules on Break Journey will not apply in case of Circular Journey Tickets for such circular journey which commences and completes at the same station. Return Journey on the shortest route or on a route upto 15% longer than the shortest route will not be treated as circular journey for this purpose. Circular Journey Tickets can be issued for all classes. Before issuing Circular Journey Ticket, the passenger should be asked to advise the names of maximum eight stations (excluding originating/destination station) where he wants to break the journey.
(2) Validity period - The validity period for the ticket will be calculated at the sum of journey days and break journey days - journey days to be calculated @ 1 day per 400 kms distance or part thereof and break journey days to be calculated @ 1 day per 200 Kms. The ticket will be valid from the day of journey indicated on the ticket. There will be no restriction on commencing the break journey. The passenger will be required to put his signature with date on the ticket on commencement of journey.
(3) Break Journey - On a circular journey ticket the maximum number of break journey will be 8 (eight). The endorsement of break-journey is not required on Circular Journey Tickets.
(4) Fare for Circular Journey ticket - The circular journey ticket will be charged for two single journeys, each journey being taken as half of the total distance. Reservation charges for different legs of journeys, supplementary charge on super-fast, etc. will be levied extra. If a passenger travels in higher class or by higher category of trains, he will be required to pay the difference of fares for such distance on point to point basis.
Note Number 4 "higher class or by higher category of trains"
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@Murli: Mar 18 (06:17AM)
Plz peruse the full reply post again.
It is strange to us in so far as there is no berth number alloted. There is nothing strange as fas as RAC getting confirmed in the intervening short period. Do you mean to say that berth will be alloted only at the time of chart preparation and the passengers' ticket will be berth -less for more than 2 months ? The system ought to generate berth No. at the time final booking status is clicked and ticket is booked. It has still no berth No. and that is strange to us but note that this is not uncommon in Rlys.

@first blogger:
Yes, you have to pay for it. Ask for it from the coach attendant. Good luck and good wishes.

@Murli: Mar 14 (09:25PM)
Sir,
I think the bed roll is free of cost in Duronto.
Regards
HE2L

@first blogger:
sorry in 3ACE, bedroll is provided FREE. My error. Apologies.

@first blogger:
no, u wont get.pl make ur own arrangement.

@anon: Mar 17 (03:39PM)
Bedroll will be provided in train. No need to make own arrangements.

@anon: Mar 17 (03:39PM)
For all AC classes, bedrolls are provided in train, without needing to pay for them.

@first blogger:
It departs - before midnight - @ 11.00 pm from Bangalore City Jn and 11.15 pm from Bangalore Cantt for Chennai.

@Kapadia : Mar 08 (05:59PM)
Maybe the initial blogger wants to say that the train is late and leaves from Bangalore after midnight.

@first blogger:
How does that matter as long as it arrives right time at destination.

@MST IndianRailways: Mar 09 (12:05AM)
Just look at dep from SSPN it has been over 2 hours delay for whole of Jan and Feb .So might be all he wanted to say was about this delay which I am sure would have reflected on the SBC dep as well.
So he was talking abt actual dep while we are all taking abt scheduled dep.

@MST IndianRailways: Mar 09 (12:05AM)
Who told it reaches destination on time... always late by 2hrs 30 mins

@anon: Mar 17 (12:56PM)
This train leaving SSPM at 7:00Pm has to encounter 2786, 2627 and 6530 expresses on the single line section before reaching Bypanahalli. The other trains being more prestigious and long distance-this one being a weekly it gets delayed before reaching Bangalore City. anyway a weekly to SSPM wont suffice-railways can actually cut it down to Bangalore city and introduce another train to SSPM via Cuddapah or Krishnarajapuram