{"id":2654,"date":"2009-09-16T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2009-09-19T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T01:01:11","slug":"sampalpur-angul-howrah-special-should-it-be-made-a-regular-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/2654","title":{"rendered":"Sampalpur-Angul-Howrah Special: Should it be made a regular train?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><strong>Update<\/strong><\/u>: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/irfca\/message\/225777\" target=\"_self\">Biswarup Basu in an IRFCA posting<\/a> pointed out that based on the current schedule this train is&nbsp; competitive with the 8005\/06 Koraput-Howrah Express; 1 hr 5 minutes faster towards Howrah and 15 minutes slower in the other direction.&nbsp; So many may not mind traveling end-to-end on this train. He thinks there is enough traffic to introduce a daily train in this route.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"2\" \/>\n<p>East Coast Railway is running eight pairs of a special train between Sambalpur and Howrah via Angul. Following is its schedule.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/20090916a_013101011 SBP-Angul-HWH.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From end-to-end connectivity point of view the path taken by this train is longer than the regular Sambalpur-Rourkela-HWH path.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SBP &#8211; Howrah : 563 kms<\/li>\n<li>SBP &#8211; Kapilas Rd (273-15 = 258) + Kapilas Rd &#8211; HWH 396&nbsp; = 654 kms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, this train would give a direct connection between Howrah and places like Angul, Talcher and Dhenkanal. A train in this route with different times and more stops could also provide direct and useful connection between Sambalpur\/Redhakhol\/Angul\/Talcher\/Dhenkanal and Jajpur Rd\/Bhadrakh\/Balasore.&nbsp; Perhaps ECOR is exploring a regular train in this route.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Biswarup Basu in an IRFCA posting pointed out that based on the current schedule this train is&nbsp; competitive with the 8005\/06 Koraput-Howrah Express; 1 hr 5 minutes faster towards Howrah and 15 minutes slower in the other direction.&nbsp; So many may not mind traveling end-to-end on this train. He thinks there is enough traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,58,57,500,5,11,60,501,508,20,506,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-angul","category-anugul-talcher-saranga-nalconagar","category-balasore-chandipur","category-bhadrakh-sarla-rdvizag","category-district-cuttack","category-district-dhenkanal","category-jajpur-rd-vyasanagar-duburi-kalinganagar-panikoili","category-kgplakshannath-rd-bhadrakh","category-rahathagara-nergundi","category-district-sambalpur","category-sambalpur-talcher","category-sambaplur-burla-baragarh-chipilima-hirakud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}