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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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**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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Continued from the fourth part
Part V (Penultimate segment)
The red LEDs read something on the positive of twenty two hours and we were facing the toughest of the situations one can face on being at Jaipur Junction. A quiet and lonely environment.
Having the privilege of holding a reserved ticket for the train departing three hours later, we were allowed to flee in
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the sleeper class waiting room, at JP.
But before a 'Ji, dinner karliya, matar paneer khaya tha' could begin a
"May I have your attention please, train number 1..." interrupted forcing my reflexes on a lightening fast speed to stop my finger from sliding the 'Accept' button.
Three missed calls later we discovered heaven in the washrooms of the retiring room. By then the time lag between subsequent calls getting diminished to quantities as small as our stay in the city were a subtle prophesy of a ferocious interrogative conversation to follow.
Fifteen minutes of interaction extracting the best of our convincing techniques had to end with 'Ok gotta sleep now, Bbye'.
During this 'sleep', we travelled the length and breadth of Jaipur junction spotting HW Mail, ADI Raj and some very VERY crowded UDZ bound trains. Some exam had forced people on the roofs and not only on the roofs but every corner that can be used to get hung at and this rush went to an altogether different level when we had a glance at the Shalimar express...
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With the details, the tale ends with the 6th part of the Double Decker blog.

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