Kanchan Kanya Express: ডুয়ার্সের রাণী - Joydeep Roy

Presenting some pictures of Ranchi railway station, from my recent trip to Ranchi. I took the Howrah-Hatia Express that has a RSA with an old flame of mine:p, the Howrah-Nampally East coast Express.
The train departed that day an hour later than it's otherwise scheduled departure timing. My coach was 89 made special NR's DLI CDO based coach. I do not know about you guys but I consider the Hatia CDO as an unofficial museum of sorts, the sheer number of old coaches they have and use in their train rakes is both unnerving and disturbing. The AC wasn't working and the AC attendant was nowhere to be found. After KGP went by, I took up matters in my own...
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hands and twitted about the problem to the 'Indian Rail Seva'. Unsurprisingly the AC started functioning a lot better and a AC attendant even checked up with me at TATA. The negligence of the attendants were a bit disappointing and this is primarily the reason why normal passengers who are not privy to twitter have such bitter experiences to complain about the railway services.
I overslept a bit and had to awoken by a fellow passenger at RNC. The train halted at RNC for around 20 odd minutes before proceeding towards HTE.
In the meanwhile it was Xed by the HTE-BWN MEMU. I once had a friend who took to train from DGR to RNC as a wager for a bid against me. In spite of my best attempts to discourage him he took it and though he was victorious in the bet, the sheer memory of that attempt still gives him shivers. I remember him telephoning me and complaining that why donot they declare the train as three different train between BWN-DHN,DHN-GMO and GMO-HTE respectively, the elaborate halt duration of this train at DHN & GMO being his primary source of complaint.
I had planned to right a travelogue but given shortage of time that has become a regularity in my life now, I had to sum up my journey in an untidy amalgamation of words. I promise to write about my experiences in a more detailed manner soon....
Good-day :)
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Camera :- MOTO G5
Picture credit :- Self
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Picture 1 :- Ranchi station board
Picture 2 :- The link of our HTE bound express, a crimson beauty WAP-4 22386 from Santraganchi loco shed.
Pictures 3 & 4 :- Some pictures of the rake
Picture 5 :- The BWN bound HTE-BWN MEMU rake makes an appearance.
Picture 6 :- The station main building
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