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Posted: Aug 05 2012 (11:22)
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Aug 05 2012 (11:22) 12313/Sealdah - New Delhi Rajdhani Express
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thewanderer^~ 3142 blog postsJOURNEY DATE:29.07.2012. TRAIN:12313 COACH:A1 : PART1:arrived at the station a bit early by the budge budge sealdah local which i had boarded from MJT. as i walked into pf9B, gangasagar express was stationed which was to leave in some time. 9a was emprty and the construction of pf 9c was almost complete, so that adds yet another platform to sealdah.lots of emu trains were comin in as well as leaving which is the traditional sight at sealdah stn. i could see the rake of sealdah rajdhani stationed in the pit-lines towards my right(facing ddj side) . further down, there was the rake of 12259 duronto which was being washed in the carshed. gangasagar left bang on time and then a BGA blue wds6 hauled in the rake of 12313 rajdhani at around 4.20 pm. the rake was ad-free and had only one durontolivery 3ac coach , rest were pure raj...
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5 Public Posts - Sun Aug 05, 2012
we slowed down at bansinala and just as the train was about to accelerate, there was a sudden noise and the train came to a screeching halt. some said there was chain pulling, others said it was a runover,, but anyways, we were stopped for a full 8 mins. then we started again with a jerk. we pulled into gaya jn at 22.44 hrs, 7 mins before time. after gaya, our struggle started,,, the train went at a constant speed of around 60 kph god knows why.. we were also having intermittent stops and finally came to a halt on nehru bridge at 00.17 hrs. opened simran on my mobile and saw the position of hwh and dbrt raj.. hwh raj was 8 kms from mgs,,, dbrt raj was 18 kms.,, so our chances of overtake of any of these 2 were virtually over. anyways, after a 5 min...
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8 Public Posts - Sun Aug 05, 2012