#TAAG_1979_Part4 #SER #ECoR #SCR #SR
#CoromandalExpress
#EastCoastExpress
#HowrahChennaiMail
#DhanbadAlappuzhaExpress
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141/142 is Coromandal
89/90 is Dhanbad Alappuzha (Used to run between Bokaro Steel City and Madras Central)
45/46 is East Coast (Used to run between Howrah and Guntur)
19/20 is Konark (Used to run between Bhubaneshwar and Secunderabad it was later mearged with Secunderabad Bombay Minar Express and Mumbai Bhubaneshwar Konark was formed)
9/10 is Shri Jagannath Express
7/8 is Howrah Puri Superfast
3/4 is Howrah Chennai Mail
79/80 is Puri Tirupati Express (Not the current 17479/80)
43/44 is Circar (Used to run only till Madras Beach)
No idea about 37/38 Howrah Madras Central Jan. Exp.

Synopsis:
Coromandal is massively slowed down by 2:40 hours from MAS to SHM unnecessary. Another injustice by shifting it to SHM.
Shri Jagganath, HWH PURI Superfast, Howrah Chennai Mail, PURI TPTY and Circar are massively speeded up.

#PART2-/blog/post/3861543
#PART3-/blog/post/3861543
#PART4-/blog/post/3861543
Exclusive pictures of the first run as LHBfied 12547 AGC ADI SF Exp..!!!
Full NCR 2018 Rake given to AGC BASE for NCR's 3rd train LHBFication......
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9 SL-B1-B2-B3-A1-6 GS
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SrDCM Agra also visited at AGC PF5 for the informal inauguration of this rake...
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Note : Please use pictures with proper credits.
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Date : 01/OCT/18
Clicked by: Me

अभी कुछ दिनों से कुछ सदस्य अपने पुराने यात्रा के अनुभव हम सभी लोगो के साथ बाट रहे है तो उन्ही सदस्यों की तरह में भी अपना एक पुराण यात्रा वृतांत प्रस्तुत कर रहा हू.
यात्रा की जानकारी कुछ इस तरह से है
दिनांक- 12 /05 /2001
गाड़ी- गोंडवाना एक्सप्रेस
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प्रथम चरण- शुरुआत से आगरा छावनी तक
[द्वितीय चरण|/blog/post/1729978 आगरा छावनी से सोने तक
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चरण 1 -
यह मेरी पहली लम्बी दूरी की यात्रा थी इसीलिए में इस यात्रा के लिओए बहुत समय पहले इस प्रतीक्षा कर रहा था. यह यात्रा में अपने परिवार के सदस्यों जिसमे मेरी एक बड़ी बहन एवं १ बड़े भाई एवं मेरे माता पिता तथा मेरे बुआ के 3 बेटे एवं मेरी बुआ, मामा, मामी तथा मामा का 1 बेटा के साथ कर रहा था. हम सभी लोगो में 6 बच्चो की श्रेणी में आते थे बाकी सभी वयस्कों की श्रेणी में थे. मेने अपने माता पिता से पूछ-पूछ कर मार्ग में पड़ने वाले बड़े सहरो एवं स्टेशनों के नाम पता कर लिए थे एवं उनका मानचित्रावली पर अध्ययन भी कर लिया था.
वो दिन आ गया जिस दिन हमको यात्रा करनी थी. सारा सामान पूरी तरह से सजा लिया गया था लेकिन पिताजी किसी जरुरी काम में व्यस्त हो गए और हम सबको निकलने में बहुत देर हो गई. हम सभी ने जीप में सामान आहिस्ता से लगाया एवं सभी बच्चे जीप के पिछली वाली सीटो पर बैठ गए. हम दोपहर 3 बजे घर से निकले थे, उस समय फीरोजाबाद से आगरा केवल २ वाहन मार्ग था. एवं उस समय गोंडवाना एक्सप्रेस आगरा से शाम को 5 बजे खुलती थी. भाग्यवस हम आगरा तक कही भी जाम में नहीं फसे एवं जीप के चालक ने जीप को बेलनगंज वाले पुराने लोहे के पुल से निकला जो की अब सड़क यातायात के लिए बंद किया जा चूका है, मेने आगरा किला को काफी करीब से देखा. उसके बाद किसी तरह से एकदम 5 बजे आगरा छावनी पहुंचे. उनदिनों गोंडवाना एक्सप्रेस को महामाया एक्सप्रेस नाम से जाना जाता था एवं उसका क्रमांक 2410 था. गाड़ी अपने निर्धारित समय से 15 मिनट की देरी से चल रही थी इसीलिए हमने रहत की सांस ली और सामन को उठा कर प्लेटफार्म पर लगाना शुरू किया. मेने उस समय देखा की बिलासपुर से अमृतसर जाने वाली छत्तीसगढ़ एक्सप्रेस प्लेटफार्म क्रमांक 2 पर आ रही थी. उसी समय १ दूसरी यात्री गाड़ी प्लेटफार्म क्रमांक 1 पर रुकी जिसका नाम मुझे ध्यान नहीं पर उसका षष्ठम यान हमारे सामने आकर रुका. हमारा यान संख्या शया अष्टम था. मेने कहा की हमारा यान थोड़ा पीछे रुकेगा तो सभी ने सामान उठा कर थोड़ा पीछे रख दिया. शायद उस समय आगरा छावनी पर यान संख्या पदर्शन सुचना नहीं थी. हमारी गाड़ी बिना किसी पूर्व सुचना के 17 :20 पर आ गयी हमारे सामने शया यान नवम आकर ठहर गया लेकिन शया यान अष्टम उसके तुरंत आगे ही था इसीलिए हम सभी लोग आराम से गाड़ी में चढ़ गए
दूसरा चरण कुछ समय बाद पदर्शित करेंगे
English version
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Now a days many members presenting their old journey story and reminding old memories. In the same queue i also want to share one of my memorable journey.
Date- 12/05/2001
Stations- Agra Cant to Durg Junction
Train- Gondwana Express
Part1- Start Up and reaching to Agra Cant
Part2- Agra Cant to sleeping time
Part3- Waked Up to Nagpur
Part4- Nagpur to Durg
Part5- Finishing touch
Part1
It was my first long time train travelling, i was travelling with my complete family and Family of my Buaji. There were 12 persons in that trip in which 6 were kids (including me) and 6 elder persons. I was too much excited for this trip so 10 days before starting of trip, i started asking to my mother about intermediate big stations and cities and started trying to plot the route on my school atlas of maps.
The day came when we were going to travel, All luggage was packed on-time but due to some urgent work of my father, we got delayed for leaving home, We fixed all luggage in a pre-hired Jeep and all children party sit in the back side of Jeep, We leaved from home at 3PM. Those days Firozabad to Agra was just a 2-lane highway and departing time of Gondwana Express was 17:00 from Agra Cant. We started praying that train will be late so that we can catch the train, Jeep took a good ride and did not stuck in traffic Jam anywhere, during journey to Agra i looked Agra Fort, we entered in Agra threw Old stretchy Bridge (A road cum Rail bridge which is now used for Trains only), and Finally we reached Agra Cant at exact 17:00. Luckily train was 15 minutes late so we got enough time to setting up luggage on platform, I looked Chhattisgarh Express was arriving at platform 2. Those days Gondwana Express was known as Mahamaya Express and no. was 2410. One train came on platform 1 at that time (not remember which train was) and i counted coaches, i found that we are standing in front of 6th coach from loco, Our coach was S8 so i was expecting that it should come on 8th place from loco and i told to my parents that our coach will not come here, Luggage was shifted few metres back, and at 17:20 our train entered in platform. S9 coach stopped in front of us. S8 was just behind that.
Part 2 will be published soon

YET AGAIN a RF MEET .... Part-1
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Reached bangalore as usual on saturday morning via 12691. After a quick nap, called PKV sir chilling out in Bengaluru as we stay close by in Bangalore and invited him for a RF session and also Shashank. This time wanted a change of place other than CSDR so the decision was Yelahanka. The decision to...
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go to Yelahanka was many
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1) Knowing that admin Vinay was travelling in OKHA - MDU ( DWK - TN i still dont know what the correct FROM & TO for this train is ) Vivek Exp from KYN to YNK and will move from there to MYS. So we decided to give him a surprise and receive him there.
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2) PKV Sir and myself had never been to YNK
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3) Moreover, there is a station next to our house (CSDR) and have never boarded or de-boarded a train here. So we wanted that one also to happen. so the return was planned to fullfill that dream as well.
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Keeping all this in mind, we set the meeting time as 14.30 hrs at CSDR (this place has become a part of our RF sessions now). I reached there and got a chance a to capture the station board from a top angle. SBC-KCG SF exp was parked there and a container frieght hauled by GY EMD was waiting there. y then PKV sir joined. The plan was to take a airport volvo to Yelahanka and we got the bus almost immediately. CSDR to YNK by BIAS 8A costed Rs 160/- each.
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(To be contd...)

JOURNEY BY 12274-DATE-14-07-2012.COACH B2,BERTH-4.PART-1(preparatory)---I and my mom arrived by the ddn ac express in the morning which arrived at 5.20 am, and as we made our way towards pf1, i saw one of the display boards showing sdah ac duronto arrival at 06.00 hrs,, i was taken aback, as sdah drnt is not supposed to reach ndls on saturday,, anyways i thought it was a mistake and probably it was actually 12273 which is supposed to arrive at 6am... but soon, i realised the real tragedy of the situation. it was actually the previous day's 12259,which finally arrived some 21 hrs late. and 12273 was running more than 8 hrs late and not yet crossed kanpur. The poor passengers of 12260 were waiting on the station since the previous night and the train was rescheduled the next day at 12.50 pm. Anyway, we went into the ac waiting room at ndls...
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and luckily we got seats ,, but tthere was water dropping from the ac,, but anyways we had no choice.12274 was soon rescheduled to 16.55 hrs and later to 19.40 hrs. the howrah and sealdah rajdhanis ,were, however, only 1 hr late each, and left on time from new delhi.at 19.00 hrs, we went to pf.9 with our luggage and after a long wait, HWH WAP4 pulled in the rake of 12274 into the platform at 19.20 hrs. i and my mom had seats no 4 and 9 and we quickly went in and settled on our respective seats. there was a lot of seat exchanging between the co passengers-4 marwari havalders, a bengali couple and another man , also bengali,and finally, the combination we settles for was that 4 havalders would take middle and upper of each side, the lone man would take berth1, and the old couple took the side berth. i reasoned with the man on berth 12 to exchange with my berth4, but he refused , saying that there would be smell from bathroom coming in the first coup, although i couldnt find reason in his words,specially for an ac coach,,,anyways, i settled for my lower berth. at 19.40, the train slowly started, without any jerk.All coaches including ac coaches were marked as max speed 120 kph.