looks like railways succumbed to pressure of north karnataka people by modifying this train route to a round about circular route, which is useless for people of bengaluru & its only beneficial for people of hubli,gadag,bellary to travel for delhi & vice versa as its too much time consuming for end to end pax. Better they restore it via dmm,kcg as earlier. coming to speed, we traveled from ubl to ypr, it arrived 8:45pm at ubl & departed at 9:45pm but still managed to reach ypr at 4:10 itself, much ahead of its scheduled arrival