With the advent of Duronto non-stop trains there is a possibility to avail these trains if your destination is on the route close to eventual destination of┬аthe train and it is a technical halt of the train. Every long distance train has some technical halts where crew changes.┬аIf your destination is one such then it could be a boon. For example, Mumbai – Howrah Duronto has technical halts at Bhusaval, Nagpur, Bilaspur, TataNagar.┬аSo, people who are destined to let’s say Bilaspur or Tata Nagar can book the entire journey from Mumbai to Howrah but get down at these stations when trains stop there. In my recent┬аjourney from Mumbai to Howrah, there were several such passengers who got down at Tata Nagar and Kharagpur.┬аYou may just have to pay extra upto Howrah for this convenience. Railways does not publish a list of technical halts for a train but you can easily figure them┬аout by experience, talking to train crew, passengers or characteristics that it is a major station, change of railway division and around 5-7 hours from previous technical halt.
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