The mighty veteran Purulia Express serving for decades, daily commuters' lifeline and witness to a Rising Bengal! - Soumyadip Mahato

So, finally here comes my Trip Report of the trip that I had to my native place Sawantwadi on 1/11/2013..
Linked with PNR Entry /pnr/post/841220.
The tickets for this trip were booked two months in advance and I was eagerly waiting for this trip from the last two months and the Day of journey finally arrived..
The whole day before the journey I...
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was finding no means to spend my time. So, I decided to sleep the whole day and so, I could not sleep at night. At 11:30pm me and my family arrived at PF#7 with all our lugguage.. Lugguage was more than number of passengers travelling.. What I could see was that whole platform was crowded by people who were waiting to board the train.
As the clock struck, 11:52pm I was able to see the train,hauled by EMD monster KJM WDP4 # 20041, by the time it would stop at the platform it was 11:55pm..
Part 1: Thane-Panvel..
After boarding the train and taking our seats, I was waiting for the train to leave Thane.. But was annoyed when a EMU local bound to Karjat overtook us from PF#5. I chose to sleep on my favourite berth the Side Lower Berth. As I was standing at the door I saw a train again overtake our train from PF#5, I did no know which train it was, but never saw a Express Train overtake Konkan Kanya at Thane being a frequent traveller of this train. As the clock struck 00:15 am the train slowly started moving and my journey had started..
As the train came on main line it slowly gathered speed and touched a speed of 97km/hr till we could reach Parsik Tunnel. In a time of 13-15 minutes our train crossed Diva Jn. 50106 which had arrived Diva late was stationery at PF#6 at Diva.. What I could see was a lot of passengers still in the train. It was because same was scheduled to leave to Madgaon that morning at 06:20 am..
After Diva train slowly gathered speed and reached a speed of 86 km/hr, which was maximum speed observed in Thane-Panvel Section..But speed above 60 km/hr was being maintained for some 2-3 minutes and train was again decelerating. Sometimes train used to travel slowly. At 00:54, the train slowed down at Panvel Outer and by the time it could arrive at PF#7 at Panvel it was 00:58..
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So, the Maximum speed observed was 97 km/hr between Thane and Diva.
Train left Thane with a delay of 30 minutes..
Time Taken between Thane and Panvel was 43 minutes, for a distance of 33 km.s
So, the average speed of train in Thane -Panvel section was 46 km/hr..
Train arrived Panvel with a delay of 33 minutes..