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Dream journey”12002-NDLS BPL Shatabdi Express”.
Thinking of my dream journey I couldn’t sleep whole night and was waiting for the time to hit 4:30am as I booked my cab @ 4:30am to NDLS. As soon as it was 4am,started getting ready and got call from cab driver saying he reached my location. So I took my belongings and boarded my cab and reached NDLS by 5:15am. My friend had to join me from Noida sector 48, So called him to find out his location but he gave me shock saying that...
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he is still waiting for the cab. I told him try to get auto/taxi/anything and reach NDLS before 6am as I am not gonna cancel my journey for him. Hence he took some other cab @ 5:35am and told me that he will try maximum to reach NDLS before 6am. I didn’t wanna go back home so went to PF#1 and the king was entering on PF was so happy to see WAP5 30003 bringing 12002. I took deep look at different coaches of 12002. Few details for rail fans/public of seating accommodation are as follows:-
1)C6 and C9 have seats starting from 1 facing towards Loco side.
2) C1-C5,C7-C8,C10,CE1,CE2 have starting from 78 facing towards Loco side.
3) E1 is better than E2.
After this, I got chance to look at NDLS-AII shatabdi which recently got LHB. I felt those coaches were not brand new. Time was hitting 5:55am , I called my friend and he said he reached NDLS but the other side so I asked him to run and reach pf #1. I was still on call and he finally reached Pf#1 and 12002 got amber/green signal so I asked him to board any coach and come to C7. Due to this I missed to capture pics @ NDLS. He came to C7 and as soon as he reached, Newspaper and water bottles were given. And my friend was totally surprised to see this as he was not aware of trains/is a RF. To this, I told him snacks/Break fast/Lunch etc also would be given shortly ,You just relax and enjoy the king’s ride. He was surprised to see the train blasting NZM where I showed him SBC Rajdhani.
12002 started hitting its top speed and I was checking the speed on phone. Max speed between NDLS-AGC was 156kmph and AGC-BPL was 142kmph. Few observations during my journey are as follows:-
1) Gondwana passed with wap4 LGD @ sholoka
2) Completely slowed down at hodal.
3) TN blazed with 100+kmph afer 10 mins frm hodal.
4) Punjab mail was overtaken after 15 mins.
5) ypr-dee duronto passed in 4 mins frm overtake(Wch means YPR-DEE Duronto was behind TN).
6) Passed vrindaroad @ 7:17am
7) Reached mtj @ 7:22am
8) AP SF exp overtook BDTS-NZM yuva exp @ MTJ(AP-wap7 lgd, Garib rath->WAP4E BRC)
9) Break fast served @ mtj --bread omlet/idly optional (Complete details with pics/taste will be updated shortly).
10) Reached AGC @ 7:58AM--> but departed @ 8:10am
11) MAS Rajdhani -->crossed @ 8:16am
12) Mas duronto ---> crossed @ 8:21am
13) KERALA passed @ 9:18am
14) Reached GWL @ 9:29am
15) Kushinagar Exp passed @ 10:55am
16) Reached JHS @ 11:04am(Was halted for 20+mins for unknown reason)
17) Soup served @ 11:26am
18) Lunch was served @ 12:01pm
19) Crossed BINA @ 12:47pm (Ice cream was served).
20) Finally reached BPL @ 14:02am(3 mins early).
To be continued- with pics/videos/other details.