South Western Railway (SWR) has revised the timings of Train number 20653 Bengaluru Belagavi Superfast Express via Hubballi Dharwad. Details are as follows.
Train 20653 arrives/departs SSS Hubballi junction Railway Station at 3:35 AM/3:45 AM. Earlier, the train used to arrive at Hubballi around 3:30 AM and depart towards Belagavi at 4:30 AM.
The train arrives at Dharwad around 4:05 AM and departs towards Belagavi at 4:07 AM. The revision in timings will benefit the passengers to Belagavi as it reaches the destination around 45 minutes early.
Earlier, the train used to arrive at Belagavi railway station around 7:30 AM. As per the revised schedule, the train reaches Belagavi around 6:45 AM making it a convenient option for the passengers.
The train had a lot of slack time at Hubballi Railway Station. Sometimes, the train used to reach Hubballi at 3:10 AM and had to wait unnecessarily till 4:30 AM to depart towards its destination.
Train number 20653 departs KSR Bengaluru railway station at 9:00 PM and reaches Belagavi Railway Station at 6:45 AM. The train is of Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) type.
En route, the train stops at Yeshwanthpur, Tumakuru, Arsikere, Davanagere, SSS Hubballi junction, Dharwad and terminates at Belagavi Railway Station.
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The train has a composition of 21 coaches including 10 Sleeper coaches, 4 3-tier AC coaches, 1 2-tier AC coach, 1 First class AC coach, 3 General class and 2 EOG coaches.
Humble Request to ministry of railway please consider start new train from Belgaum to Chennai and Belgaum to Howrah which will be helps to N numbers of people who facing lot of changes to reach above destination
Same train from Belagavi to KSR Bengaluru 20654 train make same time to reach Bengaluru at 6.45am. So that we may go to office on time
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20654 also, please modify, so that it reaches bengaluru by atleast 07.00 am.
It stops in Chikkabanawar for 45 min. This should change.
Hope the authorities will take care of this.