Feb 15 2025 (18:06) The Secound Second Longest Vande Bharat and the Longest Vande Bharat Express of South India Meets Some Legendary Trains at Trichy!! And a few more captures and meets the legendary 12636, Chennai Egmore bound Vaigai Express arrived simultaneously on PF#3 hauled by an Advertised Erode WAP-7 !! Arrival was on-time and departure was around 5 mins late The 12636, Chennai Egmore bound Vaigai Express arrived simultaneously on PF#3 hauled by an Advertised Erode WAP-7 !! Arrival was on-time and departure was around 5 mins late Another The Legend, the 22676 Cholan SF Express was on PF#5
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The Second Longest Vande Bharat and the Longest Vande Bharat Express of South India Meets Some Legendary Trains at Trichy!!...
20627- Chennai Egmore Nagercoil Vande Bharat at Tiruchirapalli Junction. The... more...
VB arrived at 0850 (5 mins early) and departed on time at 9 AM from PF #4. and meets the legendary 12636, Chennai Egmore bound Vaigai Express arrived simultaneously on PF#3 hauled by an Advertised Erode WAP-7 !! Arrival was on-time and departure was around 5 mins late.
Another Legend, the 22676 Cholan SF Express was on PF#5. It uses the rake of the 12653-Rockfort Express that arrives at around 5AM.
A few pics of the station as well......
Videos are of the parallel arrivals of VB & Vaigai and the departures of each ! (The pics are jumbled because I uploaded via RailCal, sorry for that !)
Captures dated 26/1/25.
Interestingly the national anthem was played at the station around 0930 !!
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