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It was an overcast day with constant spurts of rain regularly and brief show up of sunlight at Bareilly. The weather in past few days have been miserable. To sum up, it had been a few days that I went for any RF session and I was waiting for the perfect day.
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And there it was,...
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it was the inaugural run of Kathgodam-Kanpur-Kathgodam Express which is now changed as an existing Garibrath. I was all set to leave my place, and thanking all rain Gods I reached IZN completely dry.🙂
After a brief stint and roam around the tracks, I spotted a multiple carriage van with OHEs on a bay PF aside PF1. I went for its inspection just to run into the SSE of IZN and DOM.
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They questioned me for why was I taking snaps of OHE poles and station boards, surprisingly they understood the existence of RF activity at such sparsely crowded HQ station. They were too kind in timbre and made me clear for what actually is the reason to which OHE poles are to be commissioned to.
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BIG SURPRISE: They cleared that these are for electrification of BE-IZN-PBE-TPU section and not for BE-IZN-LKU-KGM or BE-IZN-LKU-KPV-RMR section. They said that it's not even in their plans to electrify the above two routes at the first place.
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In the meanwhile, the announcement went for 12209 Kanpur Kathgodam Express which was to be captured for the first time, hearing the honk I was enticed to witness an alco, which must definitely might have belonged to LDH shed, nevertheless the train arrived at PF1 which saw a huge bunch of crowd deboarding and many boarding as well, to be honest post BE-IZN the train was at 30 percent occupancy while before it, it must be close to 90 percent.
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Now coming to the real question, how did this Garibrath converted Express fared in terms of coach condition...
Well to be true, the standards maintained by Kanpur Garibrath then and the condition of the rake now is too repugnant and miserable. Old coaches basically ICF coaches made before 2010, with poor condition of seats and a dirty rake is all I could say the least, being too much disappointed by this change.
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This was the first actual Garibrath alongwith it's RSA partner JAT-KGM-JAT Garibrath that went down on the chopping board of Ministry of Railways.
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I had posted a few pics of RF session and a video..
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Have a nice day to everyone.
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My recent journey on the (Converted) Kanpur-Kathgodam Gareeb Rath. The train was relatively empty(around 70% occupancy). Maybe route should be changed back to via Rampur to increase PAX. Everything looks amazing in the rainy season 😍.
The Journey started at 6.35 am , 20 mins late from CNB on a wonderful monsoon morning with light drizzling rain and a cool breeze. View from the Ganga bridge was amazing. Journey till LKO was smooth and the train touched speeds upto 100 KMPH .
The loco reversal took place at LKO and that is...
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where the train was made to stay a bit longer at LKO because of priority to some Chitrakoot-intercity (But that runs on LKO - CNB route so I'm not sure why our train was stopped on outer of LKO while leaving).Had it been a GR , it would have been given better priority.
From LKO to SPN and BE , the journey was smooth and timely . The train was given priority over ALD-BE express , and one more train , which was seen waiting for KGM express to overtake on some platform. The compartment was fairly empty throughout which gave a comfortable journey. The condition of sleeper coaches was also decent.
Train reached BE around 1 hr late around 12.50.Since this train doesn't take too much time between BE and IZN (While the GR when coming from KGM takes 1 hour :D ). I decided to take the ride till IZN. The train moved fairly fast within Bareilly and i could see electrification poles already fixed between BC and IZN.
Also, electrification on BC-IZN is being done in such a way that doubling won't be possible in future , because the space took by earlier MG lines is now taken by the poles, a sign of bad future planning. I have seen similar things in Farrukhabad. Overall it was a perfect journey with perfect weather , and (Almost) timely run of the train.
More Images and vids from the journey : click here

ACCOUNT OF A JOURNEY IN A GARIB RATH EXPRESS :
The G9 & G10 coaches of the KGM Garib Rath express were changed with former rajdhani coaches (Built : 1995) of DLI division. This was the first time I traveled in rajdhani coaches and the journey was very comfortable even though it was an ICF coach.
There was a lot of confusion as no of seats was less in rajdhani coaches (64) but many people got seat no as high as 70. Maybe till the time LHB coaches start getting made for...
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GR, we will see very mixed composition of coaches for GR trains.
The train started on time at CNB @6.15 and I reached Bareilly Jn. On time @ around 11.30. Quite a comfortable journey.