Kaveri Express/16221

A small report on a smaller journey
After the Mysore trip had to return on saturday evening for attending an exam on sunday in Bangalore.
At 6:15PM on saturday my mom had called up and i asked her to book by Night queen passenger so that anyway I can reach by morning. But that train was in waitlist
6:45PM-We left out Work place and started our way towards our Hotel room by car-At 7:15PM reached the room
7:40PM As I refreshed myself and packed things, saw that time was 7:40-Suddenly struck me-Kaveri is at 8:30PM and station just 10 mins walk away
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PM Called up home asking mom to cancel the ticket, went straight down at 7:50 and asked the waiter to get something in 5 mins time-In 4 mins got nice Veg Biriyani and made a dash to the station at 8:05PM
8:15Pm-Mysore station-UR copunter was free and took the ticket-At 8:20PM was in a cosy SLB berth of S-12 of 16221
Sharp at 8:30PM the train jerked-thanks to its CBC coupling-Suddenly remembered that I hadnt seen the loco yet-tried looking out of the curves
We moved slowly and steadily and at 8:45PM we pulled into Naganhalli-saw the signal on the curve at red and opposite at green means the Mysore Queen Chamundi Express would pass us soon. The curve also showed the loco link in LHF mode as WDP-4
The KJM Alco hauled Chamundi Express accelerated past us and I just thought the train able to runs its distance in time despite the innumerous halts enroute-at 8:55PM we started again
Srirangapatna was blasted past and we came to Pandavapura-No none in the SUB, I took opportunity to strech myself in SLB keeping my eyes out of the window-In meantime my co-passenger on SL came and asked "This is Bangalore train right-why in Pandavapura"(Pandavapura by road falls on Mysore-Channarayapatna route deviated at Srirangapatna)-I said no issues its going to Bangalore so you can sleep
After Pandavapura I again started my calculations which came to a conclusion that the last train on the strech 16517 would most likely meet us well before doubled strech. As we neared Yeliyur, we were slowed down at outer to let the Bangalore-Mysore pass enter in and we accelerated past it through Yeliyur
At 9:50Pm we reached Mandya where the display indicated 16517 arriving at 22:20hrs-so we had time till Maddur to cross the same.
Doubling work, land levelling all progressing well on strech, we also tried to blats and reached up to 95kmph but the coach didnt tolerate that speed with all ladders and berths jerking in that speed. CBC issue or coach issue-Coach was 09xxx
Reached Maddur at 10:05Pm and to my surprise, the signal turned green-Well we are escaping the crossing halt with one of the fastest train on Bangalore-Mysore strech as next halt is Settihally where doubling starts and we need not wait for anyone
Slowed down at Settihally crossing the interlocks and again we spe dup when saw light around corner-16517 came with KJM Alco and had an average speed crossing where relative speed would have been at about 140kmph
Slowly we progressed and entered Channapatna when again opposite track showed green-Just as we stopped wDM-3A 18764R from Pune shed went past us with the 01036 Renigunta-Mysore special
Our run show continued and after Ramnagara I assumed next halt at Bidadi-From 44 km milestone at RMGM, the steady decrease came down to 35-34 km but the speed seemed to increase-it was too late when I realised that Kaveri doesnt halt at Bidadi at 10:55PM -In meantime a GOC WDG-3A crossed us with 2 flat beds
It was a glide thorugh and was amused to see crossing Kengeri at 11:05PM with 14 kms left-meaning 125 kms in 2 hrs 35 mins. But then entry into Bangalore was considerably slow and we crawled past all points slowly to enter Bangalore City Pf-5 at 11:35PM late by 5 mins.
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WAP7 KAVERI EXPRESS 5 HOURS LATE CRAWLS INTO BNC 16222 CBC COUPLINGclick here
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Due to the derailment of Yesvantpur bound Muzaffarpur Yesvantpur Express at Chitteri on 10 April 2012 5:30 AM all the trains between Chennai-Arakkonam- Jolarpettai had taken a major hit .
The Chennai Bangalore trains were also impacted due to this derailment . Chennai- Mysore bound Kaveri Express 16222 running way behind schedule almost 5 hours late arrives Bangalore at around 9:30 AM . Lallaguda WAP-7 loco 30258 crawls towards Bangalore Cantonment hauling the CBC Coupled rakes of Kaveri Express.
This is the second lucky time I am capturing Kaveri Express in Daylight at...
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Bangalore Cantonment..the regular arrival time of this train is 3:40 AM.