Its a damn good train with excellent patronage, I travelled in the 1st week of Feb from Hubballi to Bengaluru City. Many office goers catch this train from UBL to Haveri/Harihar/DVG. Again good amount of crowd gets in at DVG, Birur till SBC. The train was damn full from ASK, many had to stand from ASK as all seats were full. At SBC people would be standing beside the tracks of PF-10 to get into the train as platform will already be full of people trying to enter into the train. Also useful for many villages like Byadgi, Yalvigi which were having just passenger trains to the state capital.