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I would like to share my experiences in 13352 from mas to gp in 2A class..
The train was about to arrive at PF-9 at 10.15 pm. To our surprise the train arrived about 30 mins earlier at 9.45 pm with erode wap-4 leading the train. Then i realized that the train had huge slack time between perambur and Chennai central, that was the reason that it arrived 30 mins earlier. A co-passenger said that it was expected of this train as it does its all that often.
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when we boarded the coach, we found our co-passengers were not there in their berths but their luggage was there. after sometime they came and guess what there was a dog with them. The dog was the "PUG" breed(of the vodafone ad fame). We were so scared to see a dog in the coach, i could not even think of having a look at the coach for other details. But as gradually time passed we found that the dog was very well behaved and did not give any trouble to any of the co-passengers and it had a very cute name "romeo" . Only at 11.00 pm when the train left mas with ajj wam-4, i came to my senses and went looking for details of the coach. the coach was 1997 made, the coach looked old but was clean and fresheners were regularly sprayed. the toilets were clean. ac was working quite well.
the food was well below average, not only the snacks and tea/coffee but also the meals were of poor quality.
one more thing which of concern was its no of stoppages, if the number of scheduled stops were not enough, it had numerous unscheduled halts. now i could figure out why so much of slack time was given to this train.
at vskp the there was an loco reversal as well as loco change. from then on twin wdm 3a of vskp shed took charge. after rayagada we were served dinner and after that we took our nap. at jsg we woke up, time was 3.40am. at 4.40 am we deboarded the train at gp.