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Blog Entry# 806906
Posted: Jul 13 2013 (18:14)

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Jul 13 2013 (18:14)   12859/Gitanjali Express (PT)
 
JaiBharat_Janani_Tanujate^~
JaiBharat_Janani_Tanujate^~   6922 blog posts
Entry# 806906            Tags   Past Edits
#Know_ur_train_41
#Gitanjali_Express
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A high priority, highly preferred SER train.
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#Note: Pic taken by train gallery
#Name: Gitanjali is a collection of 157 poems originally in Bengali written by Gurudev Rabidranath Tagore. Git means Song, Anjali means prayer offering, hence Gitanjali means Prayer Offering of Song, since train terminates/starts at Howrah, hence named as Gitanjali exp.
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#Spl_eatable_enroute:
NK: Vada paav, Pomegranate, Raisins
BSL: Banana, Poha
NGP: Oranges, Orange Barfi, Soan papdi
BSP: Mango, DoobRaj rice, Samosa, Jalebi.
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#Rivers: It crosses 11 major rivers
enroute viz Godavari, Purna, Wardha, Kanhan, Weinganga, Sheonath, Subarnarekha, Karkhai, Brahmani, Kangsabati, Rupnarayan, Damodar.
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#Regions: Passes thru Sahyadri, Satmala hills.
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#Soils: It crosses thru region having Alluvial, Black and Red Soil.
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#State_n_Zone: It serves 4 zones
having halt as CR 13, SECR 7, SER 6, ER 1 and
serves 3 states as MH 15, CH 5, OR 2, JH 2, WB 3.
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#Speed: MAX: NK JL and BSL MKU 88kmph. MIN: SRC HWH 12 kmph.
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#Languages: It connects Marathi, Hindi, Odiya and Bengali Speaking regions.

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Jul 13 2013 (19:45)
G_I_P_R^~
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Re# 806906-11              
great sparsh...........pls change from SER to ECoR.............Geetanjali is an ECoR train and not SER
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Jul 13 2013 (19:47)
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Re# 806906-12              
You can say managed by SER with ECoR rake.
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Jul 13 2013 (19:49)
G_I_P_R^~
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Re# 806906-13              
though agree........the maintainance of this train happens at PURI since it has RSA with Jagannath exp and SER in HWH would not be doing maintainance for an ECoR
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Jul 13 2013 (19:51)
soumitra.chawathe^~
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Re# 806906-14               Past Edits
Yes, the CDO/C&W for this rake is at PURI.
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Jul 13 2013 (19:53)
G_I_P_R^~
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Re# 806906-15              
seems just foolish..........ECoR does not ply geetanjali even a km on its tracks.....very absurd RSA.......it would have been so better if it was retained as SER train
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