The Central Railway's dream of considerably cutting down travel time on the Mumbai-Pune route has been cut short as the seventh and last trial still saw the superfast Intercity Express reach both Pune and Mumbai behind schedule. The Central Railway on Thursday thus announced that it would revert to the old schedule that takes the train 3 hours and 17 minutes on the route, ending the seven-day trial.

The trails failed despite monitoring by both Mumbai and Pune divisions with passenger associations from Karjat writing to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, local MLAs and state ministers over the inconvenience of skipping the Karjat halt. It led to problems for hundreds of office-goers and students, who take this train, they said.