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Beautiful looking garlanded Piggy gives sore-throat honking while shooing away people!!!
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As evening falls, the regular customer of this route comes blazing at over 100 km/hr with a sore throat Piggy. Hauled by a superb looking LHF 40045 IGBT fitted WDP- 4B of SGUJ shed, 12345 Howrah (HWH)- Guwahati (GHY) SARAIGHAT Superfast Expess blasts through Chandanpur station on HB Chord enroute through...
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the Up main line. Never heard an EMD having sore- throat before. Though have heard WAP- 4 having bad sore throat. The particular loco was garlanded, because it was involved in the inaugural run of New Jalpaiguri (NJP)- Howrah (HWH) SHATABDI Express, which happened on the same week.
The train is the best train to travel between these two cities, even better than the 12517 Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA)- Guwahati (GHY) Bi-Weekly GARIB RATH Express. 12345 takes 17h 40m to cover 1001 km with 9 halts and average speed of 56 km/hr, whereas 12517 takes 18h 0m to cover 1005 km with 11 halts and average speed of 55 km/hr.
The Saraighat Express is a daily superfast train which runs between Howrah (Kolkata) and Guwahati (Assam). The train is named after the famous Battle of Saraight fought between Mughals and rulers of Assam (Ahom Kingdom) in which Mughals were defeated by the Ahoms under the great leadership of Mahavir Lachit Barphukan Commander-in-Chief.
The train follows the Howrah- Burdwan- Bolpur Shantiniketan- Rampurhat- Malda Town- Kishanganj- New Jalpaiguri- New Cooch Behar- New Alipurduar- New Bongaigaon- Guwahati route of ER/ NFR.