When it started, it had just two commercial halts - MGS and JBP. And that was the status when I took it in Jan 2000 from MGS to LTT. It had technical halts at Satna, Itarsi, Bhusaval, Igatpuri. But it had plenty of slack - almost 30 hours from PNBE to LTT. The train wasn't that impressive from MGS to ET - took 13.5 hours. But the run after that was good. We skipped all kinds of stations - Harda, Jalgaon, Manmad, Nasik Road, Kalyan.