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Blog Entry# 951688
Posted: Jan 01 2014 (03:10)

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Jan 01 2014 (03:10)   18048/Vasco-da-Gama - Shalimar Amaravati Express (PT)
 
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I still remember those summers of year 2003,'04 & '05,when i used to live in goa & had to go to my village 'balasore'.... At that time amaravati was having RSA,out of which one used to run 4 days a week b/w Bza and Vsg,& the rest 3 days b/w BZA and hubli.
During that time,this train used to get a ubl wdp/g 4 all the way from VSG to BZA.... It used to take nearly 25hrs to travel from Vsg to Bza. After alighting at Bza,we used to go outside station,and there was a hotel,i don't remember the name,and we do our lunch there....food consists of rice,sambhar,4 types of sabji & 1 papad.all at a cost of mere 30 bucks.....After lunch,we
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used to take the oldie east coast exp from Bza to Bls..... I still remember,once during journey,east coast exp got a diesel loco from vskp to bbs... I was amazed by the speed aggression....at that time i was just 12-13 yr old & i used to wish that when IR would introduce a direct train from goa to kolkata.....and when i shifted to punjab,then railways introduced the hwh vsg amravati..:-x

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Braganza ghat aur dudhsagar ki beauty ka toh mukabla hi nhi hai.......;-)..and the arr timing can be altered by 10-15min earlier if its speeded up....
And earlier when it was b/w bza and vsg,its arr timing at mao was in evening at ab't 1800hr..i remember,we used to cross the nzm bound goa exp in the braganza ghats....it was really exciting to see the goa exp at the far next mountain and in few min we would be halted at a block hut...just after halting,we could hear the loud chugging sound of alco coming with goa exp and slowly climbing up...so exciting view to watch.:-|..
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