Headlight shining MGS WAP-4 hauling New Delhi Superfast takes a curve at good speed
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On a drenched monsoon's early morning, 30 minutes late running 12324 New Delhi (NDLS)- Howrah (HWH) Bi-Weekly Superfast Express hauled by somewhat off-link 22243 WAP- 4E of MGS shed coasts through the massive Bally curve at an average speed while hurrying towards its final destination, which is a...
more... mere 8 kms from the station.
The regular link of this train is a HWH WAP- 4. It follows the Howrah- Burdwan- Asansol- Dhanbad- Gaya- Mughal Sarai- Allahabad- Kanpur Central- New Delhi route, and takes 22 hours to cover the entire distance at an average speed of 65 km/hr in the Up direction, and 23 hours at an average speed of 63 km/hr in the Down direction. Along with 12329/ 12330 Old Delhi (DLI)- Sealdah (SDAH) West Bengal Sampark Kranti Express, and 12379/ 12380 Amritsar (ASR)- Sealdah (SDAH) Jalianwala Bagh Superfast Express, this train is the fastest non-elite train to travel between these two cities.
Bally is the station where the HB Main and HB Chord Lines diverge after coming together from Howrah. And over an adjacent road-cum-rail bridge, the lines from Sealdah comes, which have another station for their own, namely Bally Halt. So this is a unique example of a railway station being situated just over another different railway station.
Giving me company on the trip was railfan Souvik Sarkar.