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बाज़🦅 आ रहा है ~ सिलीगुड़ी WDP-4 20000 Series - Niraj Kumar

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Blog Entry# 1573446
Posted: Aug 25 2015 (09:41)

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Last Response: Sep 07 2015 (23:42)
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Aug 25 2015 (09:41)   HWH/Howrah Junction (23 PFs)
 
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How does a division/station decide on the locomotive links of a train.
How is it decided so as to allocate a particular locomotive to a particular train!
And why is that some "Super slow crawlers" like howrah amristar, toofan express and kolkata chitpur get high speed locomotive Wap4, whilst relatively much faster trains like kolkata ahmedabad via cic and hwh-rnc intercity(via er and ecr run) get Wam4s!
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a faster loco be allocated to the faster trains!
Don't you think Wap4s are wasted on trains like toofan !

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Aug 27 2015 (14:50)
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1st point is loco availability.
2nd points is due to trains have more halts will need loco with better acceleration for crawler and passengers trains.
totally agree with you
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Aug 27 2015 (14:53)
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HWH-ASR EXP (13049/50) GETS MGS WAM-4
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Aug 27 2015 (15:02)
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ER is shortage of WAP7 locos that why no loco availability. so WAP7 is not for crawler and passengers trains in ER
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Aug 27 2015 (15:20)
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Even no crawlers get P-7 in ER bro. The ones which get P-7 of HWH shed are as under:
Poorva exp (via Gaya)- from HWH-MGS-HWH
HWH RAJDHANI
COALFIELD EXP
BLACK DIAMOND EXP
KALKA
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only the above 5 trns get HWH P-7
Other trns of ER which get P-7 are:
SDAH RAJDHANI (GZB P-7)
POORVA EXP (VIA PNBE) (GZB P-7)
HIMGIRI SF (GZB P-7)

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Sep 07 2015 (23:42)
amitsingh93   172 blog posts
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Yes your right earlier the sanghamitra 12295 would get a WAM - 4 from mas.
The run from MAS to BZA was superb.
The train was rattling the tracks with a Wammie.
And reached bza on correct time.from that that day onwards my respect for wams incresed.
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