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Agra Special to Ahmedabad

The apron at Platform 3 in Islampur is in bad shape, man.

Trains be chillin' there for like 20 hours straight because it needs so much cleaning.

I swear, it's like no one cleaned it in ten years.

So, what happened was, during the cake cutting time, the CLI of the train started drama asking why this decoration, why this cake cutting, where's the permission, I'll call the RPF, will destroy the decoration, blah blah. In the end, we had to remove the decor anyway. After calling someone, we hear from the CLI, "DONE". The PRO comes, sorts out the matter, the cake is cut in front of H1, then departure 😃. Now KARMA strikes: the train stops at Borivali outer, me and my friends are watching, why is the train moving an inch forward and then an inch backward,,, after an hour, we find out that the frontmost axle of 37491 BRC got locked 😃,,, after nearly 1:30 hrs, backup P7 arrives here, a committee sits in the ministry with the CLI ,,, now, 3 days have passed and still there's no update on what happened or not with that CLI ...... The CLI's previous record also sounds pretty bad 🤨 but this loco was supposed to run on its 50th birthday, which we had already mentioned as unfit in the morning, but forcefully they assigned us this power ,,,, interestingly, this loco brought the 52 of May DOC as well ✅.