आम लोग: "रेल फैनिंग आती नहीं". RailFans: "रेल फैनिंग जाती नहीं" - Md Asif

**An approach by two: The Double Decker Blog**
Life was perfectly balanced on its monotone with nothing interesting on the sideways to bring about an incline. The faint ray of change came from a weekend that didn't have much planned in, and a crazy mind.
How often do you meet someone sitting idle and out of the blue getting to check the availability of a random train, on a random stretch?
Mandore...
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had RAC 16 on JP-DLI on 14.04.2013 and THIS implied a trip planned.
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April 13th, 2013. 11:00 hrs.
We headed to the Okhla railway station, the choice being made because of its proximity to my place.
It was only after 30 minutes of capturing a rusted ICF vehicle and a Tiger faced Locomotive that we could drag ourselves to the important job, the PRS.
PRS not because we lost our debit cards, nor because we wanted to apply for concessions.
Its just that neither of us had guts to explain the transaction to our parents, who were unaware of this whole nuisance. (And I've no explanations ready for the day they reach to this blog as a result of wild surfing on the internet either *gulp*).
Traversing through a long queue and a not-so-customer-friendly-clerk we were finally out with the parentally-non-legitimate permit to our first ever exclusively-railfanning-trip.
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To be continued by my co-passenger for the second part of The Double Decker Blog.
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In continuation with:
[The Duronto Blog|/blog/post/65305 3]
[The Garib Rath Blog|/blog/post/65913 3]
[The Primitive Rajdhani Blog|/blog/post/66505 2]
[The Yuva Blog|/blog/post/67182 7] and
[The Shatabdi Blog|/blog/post/67784 5].