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Jan 21 2019 (11:44)   12130/Azad Hind Express (PT)
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Kulsamir~   55 blog posts
Entry# 4203154            Tags   Past Edits
Do not expect a clean coach, I travelled on 19th Jan 2019 from SEG to Pune and found the following
1) Old bedding not collected by coach attendant
2) Only bedsheets and Pillow cover handed over to us when we demanded for fresh bedding
3) No place to keep the old bedding since all berth were captured by passengers and passengers started placing the
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bedding on floor/Below lower berth

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Mar 30 2022 (16:31)   22181/Jabalpur - Hazrat Nizamuddin Gondwana SF Express (PT) | JBP/Jabalpur (7 PFs)
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Shalabh^~   1207 blog posts
Entry# 5258086            Tags   Past Edits
Curtains reinstalled in 1A, 2A, 3A
Linens have been provided for 3A 2A 1A which includes Pillow, 2 bed sheets, 1 Blanket and 1 hand towel.
Asked attendant he said all of the above have been provided from 28th March.

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DOJ 30th March 2022

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Jan 15 2016 (11:47)   12727/Visakhapatnam - Hyderabad Godavari SF Express (PT)
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IWANTTOBERLYMINISTER4EVER~   44941 blog posts
Entry# 1711423            Tags   Past Edits
Excellent Train for VSKP to Hyd and Return Neat and Clean Coaches What ever the late it is always arrive on time in both ends. Before Duronto and Garibrath High Priority
Please check the history of this train here click here
On 1 February 1974, the Indian Railways announced the first railway service between Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, with the Waltair-Hyderabad Express. The train was run on a daily basis and would depart Visakhapatnam at 5:30 pm and arrive in Hyderabad at 6:45 am, the next morning. On the return journey, it would depart
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Hyderabad at 5:15 pm and arrive in Visakhapatnam at 6:45 am the next morning. As the train provides rail connectivity to at nine stations in the deserted cities of East and West Godavari districts, it was officially named Godavari Express. It was regularly hauled by a steam locomotive and had 17 coaches. It reached its highest speed of 50 km/h between Samalkot and Rajahmundry. A slip service was introduced in the train during 1975, and the train was run up to Kakinada. Five more coaches were added, as a result. The train also entered a Rake Sharing Agreement or RSA with the Simhadri Express which ran between Visakhapatnam and Rajahmundry. However, in 1980, both the slip service and the RSA were cancelled as the Simhadri Express was extended up to Bhimavaram and the Kakinada-Secunderabad Goutami Express was introduced.
The train retained its 5 new coaches and ran with a diesel locomotive end to end. By 1990, the train had become very popular and two more coaches were introduced, taking the total to 24. It then became one of the longest trains in India. As the Visakhapatnam-Vijayawada line and the Vijayawada-Kazipet-Hyderabad lines were electrified, the train started running with the WAP 4 electric locomotive. Soon, the Godavari Express became the first train belonging to the South Central Railway to run with 5 air-conditioned coaches. In June 1999, the train met with its first incident, as it derailed at Ghanpur near Warangal. In the year 2000, the Godavari Express became the first train in the South Central railway to run with its own air conditioned first class coach and was also the first train in the Zone to have 6 air-conditioned coaches.
In the year 2011, the train was re-numbered to 12727 on becoming a Superfast train and was hauled by a WAP 7 between Vijayawada and Hyderabad. The train timings were modified again and the journey time was further reduced by 15 minutes. In July and August 2011, the passengers of the air-conditioned coaches of the Godavari Express were robbed twice and a hoax call was made regarding a bomb in the sixth coach of the train. As a result, safety was enhanced and the train started running with a WAP 7 from end to end. This train then became the first to run with a WAP 7 between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. Hundreds of people from Viziangaram and Srikakulam districts are travelling to Secunderabad daily through Godavari Express.
The train was upgraded with modern LHB coaches on 1 June 2020 which was run from both Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam by South Central Railway. Previously It was Upgraded as an Utkrist CBC rake train in 2018 which was running till 22 March 2020 after which lock down started

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Oct 07 2015 (15:58)   12130/Azad Hind Express (PT)
Suri~
Suri~   7920 blog posts
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Its only for 3rd a.c
If you get the last seat or the first seat of 3rd a.c coach i.e seat no. 7,8,63 or 64, then i assure you that your night time sleep will be not good.
Personal experience sharing, i got 63 number seat of B2 coach. As there is no curtain and plus the cabin glass door is transparent from top which allows the light from tube-light which is near the door to come inside. This doesnt allows darkness while sleeping at these seats where else the rest of
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the whole passengers sleep peacefully in darkness.
I request the IR to atleast put curtains on the cabin doors or attach curtains just on the last/first bay side seats i.e 7,8,63,64.

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Jun 22 2014 (19:48)   12402/Nanda Devi AC SF Express
Rishabh Shrivastava
Rishabh Shrivastava   49 blog posts
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On board service is good....coaches are well maintained
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