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Pompous MGS WAP-4 heading Punjab Mail thunders through Begampur at over 100 kmph
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More than 1 hour late running 13006 Amritsar (ASR)- Howrah (HWH) Mail, also known as PUNJAB Mail, headed by a madly honking 22804 MGS shed WAP- 4 blasts past Begampur station on HB Chord enroute at almost its MPS through the Down Reverse line.
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train, which even after having 53 halts, still maintains an average speed of 52 km/hr, and is not considered as a Superfast one. It is running from pre- Independence time, and is the oldest of the five trains that connects Kolkata and Amritsar. It uses the Amritsar- Jalandhar- Ludhiana- Ambala Cantt.- Saharanpur- Moradabad- Bareilly- Lucknow Charbagh- Rae Bareli- Pratapgarh- Varanasi- Mughal Sarai- Patna- Asansol- Burdwan- Howrah route of NR/ ECR/ ER.