Why do trains sometimes halt at stations or other points not marked as halts in the published timetables?

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Why do trains sometimes halt at stations or other points not marked as halts in the published timetables?

July 17, 2019, 1:20 PM

Apart from unscheduled or emergency stops, there are a number of technical halts provided in the operation of most trains. These are halts for the purposes of changing loco crew, changing locomotives, picking up food or water, etc. These halts do not show up on the normal published timetables, but they do appear in the working timetable which is used by the crew.

Example — The 2141/42 Kurla-Patna Superfast Express has many stops for operational/technical reasons, but only two commercial ones. It needs to halt at Kasara to attach bankers, at Igatpuri to detach bankers and change the locomotive, at Bhusaval for a crew change, at Itarsi for a locomotive change, at Satna for a crew change and to take on food, and at Chheoki for staff purposes. On the return trip to Mumbai, the Kasara halt is skipped by 2142 as bankers are not required downhill.

If a train makes good time on its journey and arrives early at a station, it will sometimes be detained at a point well outside the station limits until the platform / track section ahead is free for it. Sometimes this is even planned for in the schedule in the case of overnight trains that would otherwise arrive at the destination at an odd hour (e.g., the Bangalore Mail from Chennai in the early 1990’s was often detained at the outskirts of Bangalore for an hour or more before arriving at the Bangalore City station at its scheduled time a little before 6am; leaving later from Chennai or arriving earlier at Bangalore was not convenient for the passengers).

There may be additional halts for crossings in single-line sections and precedence (overtake by another train). These are indicated in the working timetable only. However, in practice, they may change based on traffic on a particular day.

Source – IFRCA.org

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