Second weekend trip report- Part 1
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NDLS-DDN
Journey Date:- November 09,2013
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Second leg DDN-KGM--->Third leg KGM-DLI
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Reached NDLS by 14:15. As my train was at 15:35, it gave me good amount of time for RF in NDLS. 14:32 Dep NDLS- UNA JS was placed on pf # 10 and My train DDN JS on pf #11. As I was aware that both have RSA so was checking CC and found that both rakes are placed opp to each, which means every alternate day the rake CC would be opposite to the one before day.
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Loco in-charge:- 18550 LDH WDM3A
CC:-Loco- D9(SLR)-D1-D2-D3-D4-D5-D6-D7-C1-C2-C3-C4-D8(SLR)
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Train departed NDLS 2 mins late and soon 2 young guys sat next to me. Which there ticket’s were booked from GZB to HW- as per chart), but after some time I understood that they boarded train with UR ticket and were happy to get seat. Soon TTE came these 2 guys showed him ticket to UMB and said we are going to RK, but TTE was so good he politely asked them , to get down as GZB and to board train towards UMB or else you ll end up paying fine more than 500/- each. But these guys were reluctant to get down at GZB so the guys who have actually reserved der seats came and asked them to vact the seats and now they realized that they will have to travel till RK without seats(not without tickets) and finally they got down at NGZB as train stopped der for 2 mins.
While coming to my journey train was ferociously blasting after crossing NZGB, I felt like I was on board Brindavan/Lalbagh till HW(managed to reach app. on-time) but after HW der was no priority as it was single line and train was crawling and stopping everywhere for crossing. Vendors were selling Sandwch and Pizza on board though ppl hardly bought them. And yeah 90 % of train was empty from HW, now TTE comes again to cross check and found 2 ladies/1 child(new) and asked them to show ticket, ticket was from NDLS-DDN. TTE was shocked as he missed to check der ticket before. TTE asked them to pay 310/- per head but those ladies started fighting with TTE and were abusing him for asking fine. Group of TTE’s came to help this TTE- they showed them the book where it says the fine amount is 310/- and still 2 ladies were almost ready to hit TTE’s. Finally public too entered into this act and supported TTE, now 2 ladies calmed down and were requesting TTE to take 200/- for all as they have only 200/- and TTE ended up not taking anything from them and told them clearly “I am doing my duty and fine is 310/- , in case you don’t have 310/- per head you could have told me instead you both started fighting and making hungama wasting time and energy. I will let you travel without fine till DDN but please don’t repeat this again in future”. I still wonder wthr those ladies would have actually understood this.!!! With all this fun mixed entrainment reached DDN at 22:31.
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Time line details:-
15:27Dep from NDLS
16:05 Reached GZB
16:07 Dep from GZB
16:17 Stopped at NGZB
16:42Reached MTC
16:46Dep from MTC
17:32Reached MOZ
17:35Dep from MOZ
17:55Reached DBD
18:18Reached TPZ
18:20Dep from TPZ
18:49Reached RK
18:53Dep from RK
18:57DDN-NDLS Shatabdi crossed
19:42Reached HW
22:31Reached DDN
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Rating:-
1)Speed--->8.5/10(till HW) and 2/10(HW-DDN)
2)Washroom Cleanliness---->6.5/10
3)Coach Cleanliness----->7/10
3)Food----->didn’t taste any.
4)Punctuality-------6/10