Vivek Express: ऊंचे नीचे रास्ते और मंज़िल तेरी दूर.

JOURNEY DATE:2017-01-01
From LKO to KGP; partial trip diary here - /pnr/post/2113151
12876 started 17 hrs late from NDLS and due to dense fog came at LKO at 1800 hrs[02 Jan] with a delay of 28 hrs. I had a 2A reservation[SU berth]. The coach was clean and good. The train started off slowly and stopped for 20 mins at Utratia[a co passenger mistook it for Raebareily and nearly got a heart attack when I told him that we were still in LKO]. It was getting night, so I slept[later I heard...
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a 3AC passenger complain of unwanted people in his coach, though my coach was as good as anything]. I woke up at 0600 hrs to find ourselves at Bhabua Road. I went back to sleep only to awake at 0845 hrs near Gaya[two foreigners deboarded at Gaya, I presume they'll never take any other Indian train again :p] It was 32 hrs late till now[also, who books NDLS-GAYA in Neelachal]. Post Gaya, there was MPS action until we were stopped at Parsipur and humiliated when Durgiana Exp OT us. Furthur were we trolled when the crawler Dhanbad - Allapuzha OT us in Jharkhand.We went at a decent speed after that crossing Koderma, Bokaro and TATA in the process. The coach was pretty empty and I got SL berths empty.Link from MGS-KGP was WAP 4 MGS.
- Chandrapur Station
- Parsipur[stn in Bihar]
- My 2A coach
- LKO
- Parasnath
- Bokaro[coach of Neelachal visible]
- Gomoh
- Koderma
- Parsipur[again]