was very nervous because indeed i took a very big risk from my side, i was about to loose my connection to Nagpur"
Another fine day when i was about to return to Nagpur i searched up trains on NTES and found that only Pawan express was running on time and ASR LTT running late by 03:45 hrs and 11016 Kushinagar by 2:52 hrs, NTES predicted ASR LTT will arrive Burhanpur at 21:15hrs which i assumed to be safe considering my connection Sewagram express that had 22:15 arrival at BSL (takes 40 mins by other trains and 1 hr by ASR LTT), it further got trolled in WCR and became 03:45 hrs late and arrival and now it became risky.
I reached station at 21:00hrs and found that no announcement was done. at 21:10 announcement started and LEDs of coach display board started displaying coach details. But it didn't arrived before 21:40, i saw a mid mounted lamp and came to know that P7 was the link found the road number to be 30207. I boarded my coach and heard a soft honk followed by a Jolt, my train had started moving.
Actually ASR LTT took 1:10hrs in my last journey because it has 3 halts between Burhanpur and Bhusawal so i felt that soon i was going to loose my connection and scratched my head for next available option.
My train took a real good start and was flying at MPS soon i started my app on my WP to track speed and found out that LP was overspeeding, in my previous experiences reading didn't go quite above 111-112 but today was a different and much aggressive run the app showed 115-116 reading constantly for 10 mins, in 15 mins my train had reached its first halt at raver, we passed a BCNA frieght here. Platform in Raver is on mainline so WAP7 showed its true colours and again it started to accelerate madly. Again the speed reached to be 116km/hr and in 10 mins we were at our next halt at savda, my train got into PF loopline here i saw a milk frieght with 10 can cars and one GS coach at rear at flat 110km/h the chugging was heard for a long time and after a brief halt of 2 mins we again started moving. Again readings clocked to 114-115km/h and soon we were at our last halt before destination, at Nimbhora. We started after a very brief halt of 1 min and train went haywire from here constantly 113-4 km/h for 10 kms and crossed the Tapti River bridge at 110km/h els trip shed flew beside us and train only had slowed down when we were about to curve into PF1 at BSL. We made it to Bhusawal by 22:20 only in 40 mins which was mind blowing considering the 3 halts.
Thanks for your generosity for reading my long report of a short leg journey :)
Indeed the question is that are LPs are allowed to overspeed to cover the time lost by trains??
