Kanchan Kanya Express: ডুয়ার্সের রাণী - Joydeep Roy

DOJ: 27.02.19
Desert safari behind ABR diesel warrior
My best passenger train journey so far :
Only 2-3 persons per coach , 70 rs for 300 km , . Train run with 75-90 km/h in almost the whole route. Though some time was lost in reversal at pokaran and crossing for ranikhet and janmbhoomi exp near osiyan.
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delicious snacks at ramdevra at throwaway price.
traversed the beautiful desert section in broad daylight and was right time through out the route.
At first it looked like this section is so neglected with only one passenger train throughout the day, but then seeing the patronage got the reason.
1. Jaisalmer has population of about 80,000 out of which one third migrate to big cities in dry season.
2. patronage of all trains is very less through out the route and out of this too majority are tourists. No tourism in dry season.
That's why it can be safely said that there are some sections in IR which will never ever go electric traction or electronically signalled as it is economically unviable. ( this route has semaphores through out except at phalodi and mandore-jodhpur section and uses token ring system)