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  • Experts think vertical growth along metro rail is the answer  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Today (12:03AM)


    CHENNAI: As work on the metro rail network in the city races ahead, experts have called for increasing the floor space index (FSI) of buildings along the route. This, they feel, will bring more people to the area and better patronage for the network. FSI is the ratio of land...
  • Sarai Rohilla Exp to run as F’pur Intercity from May 27  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:59PM)


    Bathinda: The Bathinda-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express train will now be run as the Ferozepur Intercity from Ferozepur.A temporary train, the Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express had no charted schedule and has been missing from the websites of the Railways and tourism departments since February 1, 2013.The 04010 Bathinda-Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express train...
  • Engine of goods train catches fire in Khannva  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:54PM)


    Khanna: A major tragedy was averted when an engine of a goods train caught fire. The train was stopped at the Khanna railway station as soon as the driver witnessed.Yash Pal Gomi, fire officer, Khanna, said they got a call in the morning in this regard and they rushed to the...
  • Travel agent’s office raided; fake railway tickets seized  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:53PM)


    Ludhiana: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) raided a travel agent’s office at Giaspura and seized 219 fake tickets of advance booking here today.The raid was conducted by a team of the railway force, led by Inspector Jaswant Singh.Inspector Jaswant Singh said Hari Parsad, the owner of a shop (Janta Travel),...
  • Man knocked down by speeding train | The Hindu  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:26PM)


    A 39-year-old-man was fatally knocked down by a train between Sendurai and Mathur railway stations in the Tiruchi- Vriddhachalam BG section on Sunday. The victim was identified as S. Panneerselvam of Sendurai in Ariyalur district. Railway Police sources said Panneerselvam was crossing the track when a train knocked him down...
  • Pakistan, rusting in its tracks  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:23PM)


    Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. “Cutbacks”, Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug.Ruk Station, in the centre of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by...
  • १ जुलैपासून धावणार अमरावती-नरखेड पॅसेंजर  News Entry#
    by: AMRAVATI SUPERFAST  Yesterday (11:22PM)


    १ जुलैपासून धावणार अमरावती-नरखेड पॅसेंजर बोर्डाचे आदेश : पॅसेंजर गाडी सुरू करण्याच्या हालचाली सुरू संजय पंड्या ल्ल अमरावती केंद्रीय रेल्वे अर्थसंकल्पात मंजूर करण्यात आलेल्या अमरावती ते नरखेड ही पॅसेंजर गाडी सुरू करण्यासंदर्भात लेखी आदेश रेल्वे बोर्डाने भुसावळ येथील डिव्हीजनला प्राप्त झाले आहेत. ही गाडी येत्या १ जुलैपासून सुरू करण्यासंदर्भात रेल्वे प्रशासनाने जोरदार तयारी सुरू...
  • Workers against ICF sharing know-how with private players | The Hindu  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:21PM)


    A Railway Board directive to the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) to share its coach manufacturing know-how free of cost with private players has upset workmen, who feel it is against public interest and amounts to a sell-out of ICF’s mandate as a premier supplier of coaches to the Railways.The Railway...
  • Nominated | The Hindu  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:20PM)


    Shivu Hiremath was nominated member of the Railway Users’ Consultative Committee of the North Western Railway. Mr. Hiremath is the councillor of Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation. — Staff Correspondent
  • Contract workers termination deplored  News Entry#
    by: rdb**  Yesterday (11:15PM)


    The East Coast Railway Contract Workers Union has deplored the illegal termination of dalit contract workers at Visakhapatnam Railway Station.In a memorandum to the Lokayukta Registrar, union general secretary A. Simhadri said 261 contract workers who were working at the railway station for more than seven years were terminated from...

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Guest: 2a1cea64   show all posts
Entry# 406925                  
Post the most memorable and worst ever train experience you had...
Dont make the entry longer limit to 50 words per experience..
Plz share your experiences :)

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Anand Nambyar   5544 blog posts   5205 correct pred (61% accurate)  
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great memory sir... as usual enjoyed reading... however such rescheduling were normal those days, i remember my dad narrating his mumbai travel in from cochin to bombay via arakkonam, the coach used to get detached at arakkonam, andn from there madras mail used to take it to bombay vt, a total of 50 hrs to bombay from cochin.

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Guest: 47112a0b   show all posts
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Nothing is memorable.

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May 28 2012 (8:58PM)        

jay   1600 blog posts  
Re# 406925-62                  
My memorable journey:Met my future wife while traveling in Goa Express in 1996.
My worst journey:Sitting in AC Chair car for 43 hours.The incident happened in june 1978 while traveling in Tamil Nadu Express from Madras(now Chennai) to New Delhi.Those days Tamil Nadu Express had AC Chairs.There were b/w television sets also inside the coaches.The train used to depart Madras at 7.35am and reach New Delhi at 12.35pm the next day.Faster than todays Rajdhani or Duronto.Train was on time till Vijayawada.Then the bad news of some derailment between Kazipet and Balharshaw so the train was diverted through Waltair(Vishakapatnam nowadays).I was in 11 years old then traveling with mom and brother.Luckily there was pantry car and no problems with food.Still I remember the vegetable cutlets which were awesome.They don't make food like that anymore.They would show recorded Chitrahar and Movies on TV.The
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train reached New Delhi at 1am via Nagpur.

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Guest: 45b10b42   show all posts
Re# 406925-63                  
this makes me remember my family's journeys also. of the 4-5 times we had done the NDLS_MAS-NDLS trip, 3 times the train was re-routed through SC due to natural calamities/accidents. it started in 1969 & the last re-routed trip i had individually done was in 2008 by Madurai SK Express due to an accident near Balharshah. But this time, the train was stopped and re- routed after Sewagram (where it had a lengthy halt of apprx.8 hours as we were the first train immediately after the goods derailment) On my way back within a span of 5 days, i saw the derailed goods train lying near the tracks and work was going on.

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Aravind Kutty*^   1827 blog posts   2645 correct pred (66% accurate)  
Re# 406925-64                  
The best- It was the first time that I was travelling in AC and my first AC journey was in TVC Raj 2 tier AC ( A1-25,27,29,30). I was just 11 yrs at that time. I was amazed by the service and food.
The worst- Two yrs earlier, I planned to go to TCR with my mother and brother in Hapa Tirunelveli SF in 3AC. When reaching Verna, a place in northern Goa, we came to know that a goods ahead had derailed and all the ACs were switched off. We struggled in that B1 compartment without AC for a frustrating 12 hrs!!!!!, that too in an atmosphere like the Sahara desert!!!!!!!!!!!
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