TATA Steel Express - Second Sitting sasta bhi, sabse achha bhi - Ravi Raj

#TripReport
Date of Journey - 01 Sep 2016
From - Pune Junction
To - Solapur Junction
Train No. - 17222 LTT (Kurla) Kakinada Express
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- WDG 3A Kalyan Shed
At 14:15 left office and took PMPML Bus No 115 Hinjewadi - Pune Station and reached Pune Station at 15:15. Display indicator was showing Kakinada has delayed by 30 minutes. Taken my journey ticket from ATVM Machine.
Entered to PF 1, huge of passengers are waiting for Pune Gorakhpur. Pune Indore departed from PF 1 after 10 mins Deccan left from PF 5. I went to PF 2, Koyana came to PF 4 at 15:30 and Udyan on PF 2 at 15:40. Udyan left at 15:55 sharp. As soon as Udyan reached Shivajinagar bridge Koyana departed (As this section is converted from block section to automatic signalling system).
My train arrived Pune at 17:20 on PF 2 and departed at 17:30 i.e. 1 hr delayed. WDG 4 UBL Shed (Ex KJM Shed) hauling Pune Gorakhpur departed at 17:20. Till Daund my train was trailing Gorakhpur Express hence stopped at Loni, Yavat and Patas as line was not clear.
After Patas, train entered into Solapur Division. Both driver as well as Controller goes mad from here (Awesome Controller). From Daund, each and every station WDG 3A is just honking and smoking madly and continuously running at speed of 110 Km/hr. Not a single crossing on this single line section, as other trains are already on loop line for giving side to this late running train.
I was expecting to reach Solapur around 20:30, but surprisingly train reached at 19:50 only. Within 3 hrs 20 mins only. As platform was not available, train was waited at outer for 10 mins and after Shatabdi departs 17222 came to PF 2 of Solapur at 20:00.
I sincerely thanked to driver and Controller of Solapur Division who made me feel of traveling in Shatabdi/Rajdhani type train... _/\_ :)

A small #TripReport
I am a regular passenger on 13133 from my office to home (BNXR to BWN). Usually that journey passes by without any specialty. But on the night of Friday, 13th march some special case happened which shows us what happens when the traffic controlling does some mistake and fails to prioritize trains properly. I will try to describe the facts and mistakes by the controller point by point:
Error 1: It all started when just after passing DKAE at right time my train 13133 was shifted to the pit...
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line and was overtaken by the SDAH-BRPA Local on the Fast Line. As a result, the track exchange was inevitable and that delayed my train by 25Mnts. on-spot.
Error 2: After the track exchange, my train started gaining speed and was doing 90KMPH. At that time 12321 came from behind and humiliated my train at over 100KMPH on the right side. I haven't seen such a brutal and thrilling overtake in my whole life. It's a rarest of the rare incident and I don't have the proper language to describe this. This may be an error, but an experience of the lifetime.
Error 3: The controller totally forgot to shift a freight to the pit line and that train was standing on the fast line which forced Mumbai Mail to stop. We again overtook her at GRAE.
Error 4: Again track exchange happened and now Mumbai Mail was on our left (I don't know the reason behind it. Grrr., my dinner was getting cold!).
Error 5: My train now ran really fast for some time but again stopped before SKG for 10Mnts and Mumbai Mail again took us on, now from Left (are they joking!).
Error 6: Even 13159 overtook us there and was stopped at SKG to allow 12321 to pass.
Error 7: My train started crawling and again stopped at SKG (I had already been left out of all hopes). But the controller didn't bother to control the Mighty Darjeeling (12343) en-route which came immediately at SKG, trembling the world with it's EMD and was stopped too.
Error 8: Now the situation is a total catastrophe. 3 trains are totally stalled at SKG with no clue when to move. Final result each and every train was heavily delayed to enter BWN. 13133 was worst affected with 1:08Hrs (Now it is 2:00Hrs as per NTES), 12321 got 47mnts, 12343 was 34Mnts and 13159 was 44Mnts. I don't know what they think when they control the trains. Hope they take a lesson from this incident.
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1,2,3,4:: 12321 overtaking my 13133 at 100+KMPH when my train was doing 90+
5,6:: A bit smooth run till SKG where my train would be stalled for another 30Mnts
7:: AC coach of 13159 snapped at SKG
8,9,10:: Mighty Darjeeling (12343) stopped at SKG. It's EMD huffing in anger.
Thanks for viewing and apologies for not good quality pics due to darkness and mobile cam.

ICF Trip and Back to Kolkata (P-1).
Today is the DAY, Myself and WRIK from KOLKATA have come 1700 kms and have waited for 2 LONG months.what a coincidence that "NEELAM" also thought it can also be a part of our ICF trip and it started raining from the time we woke up at 6am.As we were busy with our ICF Trip and moving across the Units with knowledge gathering at every corner.
At around 3pm, when the Chart got prepared, it was to our utter DISMAY that WE were alloted at S13-60...
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and S3-62, the seperation of 10 compartments between us.Anyways the return journey was thought to be waived off the difference after such a great memorable trip at ICF.
In the meantime at around 6pm to 730pm, we had a MINI ADMIN's(Myself,Dr.Nazeer,WRIK,Tejas,Dipyaman Basu,Amjad Ali Khan,Suresh Sirvi and Sai Jinendraji) Get-Together at Chennai Central A/c Waiting Hall.We had some general topics,some IRI related, some IR related and some other subjects as well to discuss.After all these, we decided to have Dinner at a place and had asked Saiji to choose the place for us and City of chennai is like his own palm and who better than Saiji to advise us.As we came to a decision to proceed to DELHI HOTEL, Saiji took his HONDA ACTIVA to wards the hotel.
For Dinner, we had Chappati,Yellow Dal,Green Peas curry,Bhindi(Lady's Finger) Curry,Gobi Aloo Matar Curry,Mixed veg Curry and Salad.With all these happening on Dinner table,WRIK decided to by-pass the dinner because he wasn't feeling hungry after consuming lots of Snacks while returning from ICF visit.
After a Courteous and Sumptuous Dinner Party(Thanks to Sai Jinendraji) at a Sai Jinendraji's familiar "DELHI Hotel" Junction around the Waltax Road which is almost 1000mts across the P-1 exit gate.While Amjad Bhai had to leave around 815am to catch an EMU to TADA, Myself,WRIK,Dr.Nazeer,Dipyaman Basu,Tejas,Suresh Sirvi and Sai Jinendra had some beautiful time at the Hotel.Time ticking around 830pm, Nazeerji had to leave as he had ticket booked in Nilgiri Exp which was to depart at 915pm.It started to drizzle a bit at 840pm when we took an AUTO without bargaining on being Hefty Charged at Rs.100 instead of Rs.50-70 as advised by Jinendraji.As soon as we took to the streets, it started raining Heavily and i mean it Heavily with our Shoes getting wet from the wind gust even through the Side-covers of the AUTO.
However as we closed in on EGMORE station, the rain subsided.