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Blog Entry# 761148
Posted: May 22 2013 (13:02)

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May 22 2013 (13:02)   12986/Delhi Sarai Rohilla - Jaipur AC Double Decker Express | DEE/Delhi Sarai Rohilla (5 PFs)
 
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Entry# 761148            Tags   Past Edits
**An approach by two: The Double Decker Blog**
Life was perfectly balanced on its monotone with nothing interesting on the sideways to bring about an incline. The faint ray of change came from a weekend that didn't have much planned in, and a crazy mind.
How often do you meet someone sitting idle and out of the blue getting to check the availability of a random train, on a random stretch?
Mandore
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had RAC 16 on JP-DLI on 14.04.2013 and THIS implied a trip planned.
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April 13th, 2013. 11:00 hrs.
We headed to the Okhla railway station, the choice being made because of its proximity to my place.
It was only after 30 minutes of capturing a rusted ICF vehicle and a Tiger faced Locomotive that we could drag ourselves to the important job, the PRS.
PRS not because we lost our debit cards, nor because we wanted to apply for concessions.
Its just that neither of us had guts to explain the transaction to our parents, who were unaware of this whole nuisance. (And I've no explanations ready for the day they reach to this blog as a result of wild surfing on the internet either *gulp*).
Traversing through a long queue and a not-so-customer-friendly-clerk we were finally out with the parentally-non-legitimate permit to our first ever exclusively-railfanning-trip.
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To be continued by my co-passenger for the second part of The Double Decker Blog.
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In continuation with:
[The Duronto Blog|/blog/post/65305 3]
[The Garib Rath Blog|/blog/post/65913 3]
[The Primitive Rajdhani Blog|/blog/post/66505 2]
[The Yuva Blog|/blog/post/67182 7] and
[The Shatabdi Blog|/blog/post/67784 5].

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Part III: Continued from the second part
With the sparkling red-cum-yellow rake placed, the rake of Maharaja Express being shunted and an excitement all around, it'd take a railfan real digging up to hunt for a reason to stay gloomy.
The TKD alco was the incharge and the EMD was missed right till the end. The poorly maintained station had excited passengers posing near the dual-window-vehicle, confused passengers searching for their seats, busy passengers with dark formal outfits entering at the last minute still busy with the bluetooth headsets in their heads, and
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composed families getting themselves seated well in time.
The revolutionary concept that graced the IRI forums with an intense discussion some time back, was in front of us.
Lower deck, two seats on the left.
Winning the war for the charging points, check.
Installing the GPS Speedometer on a crawling network, check.
Trying to push the seats back, ch... oh wait. -.-
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And then one does not simply stay in train before its departure. Trusting our bags on the angels of railfanning, here were we exploring DEE only to get back when it initiated dynamics.
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'Burger, Sand which, Bread Cutlet, Bread Omelette' started to echo as the train crossed the Delhi suburb.
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What can be more innocent than two hungry low-on-budget guys getting fascinated by the distinctive alluring smell of fresh burgers?
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"Two of them" said I while digging for the 50 buck note in my wallet.
The poor fellow hadn't been even discovered to confront this cruel world when the lightening landed over him which as decoded in Hindi sounds like '80 ho gaye'.
I glanced back firstly on the two pieces of buns with potatoes in the middle which had lately lost all aroma and charm, followed by one on the richer neighbours of the fifty buck note which were dying at a massive scale. The only way to avoid a scene with the porch gentry and a vendor with an are-you-alright? face around was another murder. Sorry buddy. Rest in peace.
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The post cremation story continues in Part IV.

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