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Old Dec 11, 2010, 8:26 am
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abhilife2001
 
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Originally Posted by hserus
I'd still advise you to take the shatabdi - if a trains' coming from over a thousand kilometers away, from south india all the way up north (a distance of > 30 hours), there's every chance it'll run late by an hour or two, even several hours if there's irrops of some sort.

The shatabdi on the other hand is point to point shorthaul - far better chance of running on time.
+1..
not to speak of the high probability of the relatively dirty state of the loos even in 1st class if the train has already travelled 30 approx hrs..
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