LLH/Liluah (5)

Double Decker ride: Crossing Chambal, fleet of WAP-7, Parallel action, and many more
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12385 Howrah (HWH)- Dhanbad (DHN) A.C. Double Decker Express headed by 30203 WAP- 7 of HWH shed (ex.GMO) gets furiously accelerated to 104 km/hr (confirmed by the Digital Display Board inside the coaches) after crossing the PSR of 10 km/hr at Howrah outers, And while doing so, we cross the Howrah (Liluah) ELS (Electric Loco Shed) and the adjacent second Coaching Yard. A portion of the ELS is seen in the video, where a fleet of HWH WAP-7 are seen. Immediately, it is followed by the Coaching Yard (Howrah's ER section has three coaching Yard, and Howrah's SER section has a solitary massive coaching yard at Santragachi). The...
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Howrah (Liluah) DLS (Diesel Loco Shed) is situated just behind the second coaching yard, hence not visible for the common people. Meanwhile, we cross Liluah station, and a Down Chord EMU. And then, we cross the huge Belur scrap yard, where numerous aged or damaged coaches, wagons and caboose are seen. At 01:53, a branch line heading for Belur Math is seen, which cuts its way through the scrap yard's lines. Immediately, we witness a small parallel action with an Up Main line EMU, and gallop Belur station enroute. Finally while we slow at at a PSR (exclusively for DD) of 15 km/hr at Bally, we meet the 12178 Mathura (MTJ)- Howrah (HWH) Weekly CHAMBAL Superfast Express headed by HWH WAP-4.

Rarely caught Down Upasana Express arrives at Liluah with honking Alco
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Finally got to capture a train which is rarely caught on camera in the ER zone.. Reason?? The train's scheduled arrival time at HWH is at 03:15, and it generally remains on time.. Thanx to the North Indian fog mayhem that the train was delayed by more than 3 hours.. 14131 WDM- 3A of HWH shed hauled 12328 Dehra Dun (DDN)- Howrah (HWH) Bi-Weekly UPASANA Superfast Express honks, chugs and arrives at Liluah station to give an unscheduled halt in the penultimate station before Howrah. And at the same time, our Chord Line EMU departs with a grumpy honk..
The train...
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uses the Howrah- Burdwan- Asansol- Madhupur- Jasidih- Patna- Mughal Sarai- Varanasi- Sultanpur- Lucknow Charbagh- Bareilly- Moradabad- Haridwar- Dehradun route.