
Barbie Doll Wammie of Tata honks and braves the fog in a freezing December morning!!
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On a freezing December morning, 8 hours late running 58014 Bokaro Steel City (BKSC)- Howrah (HWH) Fast Passenger headed by a honking 21263 Barbie Doll liveried TATA shed WAM- 4 (ex. Vijaywada, Arakkonam, Lallaguda) cruises through Bhogpur station on SER's KGP- HWH stretch enroute at a fair speed. The train was running on revised timing due to the ban of passenger traffic movement during the night on the Adra- Kharagpur stretch as an aftermath of the Jnaneshwari sabotage.
The train generally gets SRC shed WAP-4 now-a-days, so it was a welcome sight for me and fellow...
Read more... railfan Vivian Boye. Note that the coach composition was more like an Express train rather than a Passenger one, which comprised of two SLR, a solitary General coach, five Sleepers, one First Class coach and one A.C. Three Tier. This is the only train of SER that still have a First Class coach. Surprisingly, the train does not halt at Santragachi, where even the Down Coromandel and Faluknuma halts.
The train uses the Bokaro Steel City- Chandrapura- Mahuda- Bhojudih- Adra- Bankura- Midnapore- Kharagpur- Panskura- Santragachi- Howrah route of SER.
I am dedicating this video to my railfan friend Sunil Kumar Bharadwaj, who resides at Bokaro.