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Posted: Jun 30 2014 (11:16)
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Last Response: Jun 30 2014 (14:20)
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Last Response: Jun 30 2014 (14:20)
adieu janta express. ..an obituary...
I have always been a fan of relatively slower trains than ultra fast ones. trains stopping and chugging along at smaller stations is a treat to my eyes. serving thousands of not so priveleged passengers is a lot different from trains connecting two metro cities thousands of kilometres apart with just a couple of intermediate stops. I have myself been brought up at a smaller station of sahibganj and had it not been for these slower trains I could never have been connected to bigger cities. once I got stuck at a small station of athmalgola. dozens of trains zipped past me and me along with three dozen passengers were mute spectators. ohh, let me describe the...
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I have always been a fan of relatively slower trains than ultra fast ones. trains stopping and chugging along at smaller stations is a treat to my eyes. serving thousands of not so priveleged passengers is a lot different from trains connecting two metro cities thousands of kilometres apart with just a couple of intermediate stops. I have myself been brought up at a smaller station of sahibganj and had it not been for these slower trains I could never have been connected to bigger cities. once I got stuck at a small station of athmalgola. dozens of trains zipped past me and me along with three dozen passengers were mute spectators. ohh, let me describe the...
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13132 will serve the purpose of janata....btw as far as Athmal Gola is concerned there are quite a few No. of MEMU's & Pass to take them to Kiul/Jhajha where they can catch long distance trains :)
it was around mid night and hardly any locals...also not sure where they were destined to...I slept off on boarding. ..when I woke up after 4 hrs, 90% of passengers had changed...so all short distance passengers I guess...for say 10 15 stations (50-100km)