Journey on 8th july
after all the Rail Roko and its postponements it finally confirmed in the afternoon that there wont be any disruption in the trip to hyderabad. took an auto to the Railway station and reached at 5:45PM
Coach number was S-12-walked down the subway to platform 2 crossing all the 7 AC coaches(Confirmed that the 3rd 2A coach has become permanent)-the coaches numbered indicated that average they were 10-12 years old-Our coach was 02 made (S-11 was 92)-Went to check the engine to my dismay found that the loco was...
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not yet attached-on platform 1 Karnataka Express rake was being pushed in-on platform 4 Karnataka Express rake(arrival) after changing the board as Chennai Mail was being taken to the Yard
at 6:20Pm a WDP-4 was attached and slowly delayed by 15 minutes the train started moving-WDP-4 picked up speed before crossing the platform, again slowed down-the coach though old was clean though there was a rat and few cockroaches around
As we slowly moved out AJJ WAM4 bought in the Arakkonam Bangalore Passenger. As we moved in Bangalore Cantt KJM WDG-3A brought in the passenger train from Salem-Surprisingly the passenger train had coaches of 2009.
Our train slowly moved picked up speeds slowed down at KJM Bye-pass to turn to chennasandra and reached Yelahanka at 7:20Pm-regular good speeds were taken though there were some slowdowns-After doddaballapur went through at good speed through makalidurga ghats-WDP-4's headlight and coach light matched well with the lights on the other side of the Ghats and curves were crossed with ease-At Makalidurga station WDP-4 was waiting for us with 11013 in Tow towards Coimbatore
after regular halts and slowdowns at 9:15Pm slowly reached Hindupur outer and moved inside very slowly-a freight was waiting for us and it moved just after we entered. After Hindupur we again slowed down before next station to enable a passenger to stop inside after which we surged ahead-WDP-4 working wonders.
As I laid down on the upper berth around 10:20PM the announcement at a Railway station blared-"Welcome to Dharmavaram"-Well quite a good initiative by SCR to make such announcements on arrival of the train at the station-same was heard at anantapur and Kurnool too(Was fast asleep at other stations)
Woke up around 5:35AM and was surprised to find everyone sleeping-heard my father telling my cousin that train just crossed Jedcherla and will take a minimum 45 minutes to reach-Got down from my berth and occupied a vacant Side upper berth watching the stations Flyby as train picked up speed-Regular slowdowns created a suspicion that Venkatadri might be ahead-Crossed samshabad airport well lit and Double line joined us after Falaknuma and we slowly entered Kacheguda at 6:25AM late by 45 minutes on platform-4. Venkatadri was expected to reach at 6:45AM onto platform3. annoucements were made for MMTS towards Falaknuma as well as Lingampalli as we walked out of the station
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