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Posted: Jan 02 2019 (19:05)
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These are just part of a loco link arrangement. IR mainly focuses on maintaining maximum utilization for every locomotive. Keeping a locomotive idle is just wasting the loco. So, if there is a layover for a locomotive at a particular place and there are other trains that can be served during the layover, then the locomotive will be used for one of those trains. It doesn't matter if the other train needs it or not. It is most important that the loco not remain idle.
This is why many passengers end up running with P7/P4 links. The WAP loco would arrive with some express train and would be attached to the passenger train as a part of...
more... a loco link.