Indian Railways: Divided By Zones, United By Railfans - Karthik

Headlights on WAP-4 humiliates EMU:: Purulia Superfast defeats EMU in a small race...
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Hauled by a deadly 22329 SRC shed WAP- 4e with headlights switched on, the 1h 20m late running 12828 Purulia (PRR)- Howrah (HWH) Superfast Express come thundering through the down reverse line, and simultaneously overtakes our Howrah bound EMU at the outers of Mecheda. Was expecting a parallel action,...
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but the unclear outer signal forced our EMU to halt, and poured water over our expectations.
12828 uses the Purulia- Adra- Bankura- Bishnupur- Midnapore- Kharagpur- Santragachi- Howrah route of SER to cover 323 kms in 5h 50m with 13 halts enroute.
This video is taken on the behalf of Kolkata Railfans' Christmas' Conventional Meeting and Railfanning trip, and was accompanied by Anindya Roy, Arindam Ganguly, Rohit Basu, Saugata SenGupta, Avishek Basu and senior railfan Bappa Pal..