I still remember those summers of year 2003,'04 & '05,when i used to live in goa & had to go to my village 'balasore'.... At that time amaravati was having RSA,out of which one used to run 4 days a week b/w Bza and Vsg,& the rest 3 days b/w BZA and hubli.
During that time,this train used to get a ubl wdp/g 4 all the way from VSG to BZA.... It used to take nearly 25hrs to travel from Vsg to Bza. After alighting at Bza,we used to go outside station,and there was a hotel,i don't remember the name,and we do our lunch there....food consists of rice,sambhar,4 types of sabji & 1 papad.all at a cost of mere 30 bucks.....After lunch,we...
more... used to take the oldie east coast exp from Bza to Bls..... I still remember,once during journey,east coast exp got a diesel loco from vskp to bbs... I was amazed by the speed aggression....at that time i was just 12-13 yr old & i used to wish that when IR would introduce a direct train from goa to kolkata.....and when i shifted to punjab,then railways introduced the hwh vsg amravati..:-x