रेलफैनों की तो बात ही कुछ और है

Bangalore - Mumbai Need for Speed
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I have to travel to Mumbai. There are no 2 ways about it. I travel quite regularly on this route, either from Chennai or from Bangalore. I could not have cared less, had I been just a normal traveler. All I needed was to call up my travel agent and let him know. I could not care less how he gets the ticket as long as he meets my need, which would have been as simple as get me a confirmed ticket or sure to confirm...
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ticket to Mumbai.
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But I am not a normal traveler. My fellow species treat me like some weirdo. What on earth is this guy up to late night staring into the darkness as the trains blast past miles and miles of monotonous terrains and sounds. Who with perfect sanity would book a ticket from Maddur to Trichy if all he wants to travel is from Bangalore to Salem. This is one guy you should avoid. However, I am as normal as person can be when bonded with the correct species, also known as Railfans, A word for some reason, I hate with all the hatred I could manage. It is nothing against the community as I am integral part of one :). It is just that word. Anyway as usual I am drifting
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Now that the context is in place, the starting point of this exercise is that I have to travel to Mumbai and the objective is to make it a high speed trip or atleast an alternate route from the typical Udyans and Kurla expresses. Bangalore to Mumbai and high speed travel. Well you must be out of your mind and crazy. I might be crazy all right, but certainly not out of my mind. Well the difference is so subtle, that I cannot explain now.
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4 routes in place for me now.
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Option 1 : Travel towards Mangalore and take the Konkan route to Mumbai.
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Option 2 : Travel via Hubli.
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Option 3 : Travel via Nagpur (I have a reason. Hear me out first :P)
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Option 4. Udyans and Kurlas travel in this route
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Option 1 : Reserved for Monsoon. Option 2 : Also preferred during monsoons and not a high speed route. Option 3 : Yummy Need for Speed. Option 4 : Oh Puhleeezzz.
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After a lot of introspection, Craziness analysis, What would people think scenarios and random thoughts, I settled on Option No 3.
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Yes I will travel to Mumbai with a Personal Chain of KSK upto Nagpur and Nagpur Duronto to CSTM. With the route decided, I faced the biggest challenge ever in my RF career, which would necessarily and radically elevate my levels of craziness in the minds of the normal homo sapiens . Details to follow soon
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Stay tuned for a weird itinerary :)

Hot Pic D Day.!! Karnatka Sampark Kranti Express ||
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Captured #First time KSK at BPL stn pf 2.
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Arrived with a WAP-7 at a delay of 25 min, which is its...
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avg delay at BPL Junction.
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In the pic: B4 of KSK.
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Have view,
#EmAJ