Eat-Sleep-Railfanning 🔄 Repeat - Shankar Mehani

Dear All
Good Morning,
I recently traveled from Tirupathi to Duvvada, as i could not get direct train to visakhapatnam in the 2nd week of November, 2014, which departs from Tirupathi at 1955 pm and arrived at Duvvada at 800 am. This is supposed to be superfast express.
To my surprise, the ac 3 tier bogie was not even cleaned, i understand the...
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train had just arrived half an hour back and is back departing, the "assistant " in compartment was candid enough to tell that , he would not give the blanket, as it is not clean and they don't have fresh stock, thank god for it.
The 3ac compartment was so dirty and full of cockroaches and rats, it has about 5-6 stops between tirupathi and duvvadda and surprisingly does not even have pantry, as the run of the train is more than 26 hours.
@ Duvvada, there should be some direct bus connection to city ( Visakhapatnam), non-stop, so this would save time to the passengers, there are quite a few trains transiting via duvvada, without touching visakhapatnam, to save 2-3 hours of time going into that loop. There r only few auto's and city buses that are available.
Railways have increased fares quite high in recent past, however there is no improvement in services even in AC coaches.