Amarkantak Express: Holy for Railfans as holy as Amarkantak is for devotees. - Ayan G

Extremely dangerous sparkling & caution order violated!!! MGS WAP-4 on absolute fire!!!
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Just watch the sparkling by 22814 MGS shed WAP- 4!! 13005 Howrah (HWH)- Amritsar (ASR) PUNJAB Mail tears past Mirzapur Bankipur station on HB Chord enroute through the Up main line, and denies a caution order that was placed for the train.
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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 to cover 1911 kms in 36h 35m.