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Yesterday (13:16)   12032/Amritsar - New Delhi Shatabdi Express | JUC/Jalandhar City Junction (5 PFs)
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My first solo long distance train journey in India

After spending around 2.5 years in Canada, I came back to India on October 1, 2023. Even though the friendship between me and trains date back to my childhood, but I had never travelled in a long distance train alone.
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So, I decided to do a solo trip to Mangalore. It was the time between Dussehra and Diwali, in November of 2023. I decided to book my tickets in 22656 NZM - ERS SF Express, which was in waiting but I still decided to go for it as the W/L was just 3 and it was still more than a week for my journey. The journey was from Nizamuddin while I am living in Jalandhar district, so it was time to book for my second train, the first of the journey, to go to Delhi. I had a lot of options like Golden Temple Mail and Chhattisgarh Express that would take me directly to Nizamuddin without station hopping. But my father suggested me to book for an earlier train, so i booked in 12032 ASR - NDLS Shatabdi Express making it my first journey in a premium train.

Now the journey day, 3rd of November 2023. I left my home at 4 in the evening and caught a bus towards Jalandhar. De-boarded the bus 2 km before my scheduled stop. I was to get off at Pathankot Chowk/Bypass, but I de-boarded 2 kms before when my bus stopped. Started walking and got an auto to reach Jalandhar City JN just 5 minutes later. The train arrived 10 minutes after the scheduled time i was allotted an aisle seat on the 2 seat side, but seeing the window seat empty, i sat on it thinking I will get up when my co-passenger shows up and asks me to leave his/her seat. My co passenger came at Phagwara but he didn’t say anything about me occupying his seat and started to do his work. The train’s next halts were Ludhiana, Rajpura and Ambala Cantt, didn’t make any unscheduled halts and after Ambala Cantt, the train continued its high speed run up to Sabzi Mandi. Then it crawled all the way up to New Delhi, stopping a few times in that 4-5 km journey eventually arriving 10-20 minutes delayed.

After arriving at New Delhi, I decided to take the NDLS - PLWL EMU that leaves at 00:15 hrs from NDLS as i had seen on IRI but the platform of that keeps changing as informed by one staff member at NDLS “Bhai wo kahi pe bhi aa jaati hai” and told me to follow the LED boards on the foot over bridge. I followed and saw the number 04440 over platform number 8 if I remember correctly. Its rake was getting placed on the platform as I was walking with it. Found an empty cabin and sat on a seat. The EMU departed and after 10-12 minutes, I was at Hazrat Nizamuddin station.

Now, the real wait begins.

I decided to wait on the platform instead of going to a waiting room. The station was fairly empty as the passenger movement and train movement is quite less in the middle of the night. At 4 in the morning, I was pretty sure that the rake will be placed by 4:30 but the wait wasn’t over. And did I tell you that my ticket got confirmed. Yes it did and I got Side Lower berth yay 🥳.

Anyways, the rake was placed exactly at 5 am, at the time of departure. I quickly found my seat in A1 coach and did my bedding. I laid down as the train departed at 5:35, 35 minutes delayed. I slept soon enough as I hadn’t slept the whole night. The train halted at its usual halts Mathura and Bharatpur as I was catching some zzzzzzzzz. At Bharatpur, I saw some train overtaking us, It was 22414 NZM - MAO Rajdhani Express. The delay was quite much when the train left Sawai Madhopur but it was mostly covered till Kota JN. My eyes were wide open looking through the window enjoying the views as the train was continuously running at 130 kmph. Ulysse Speedometer rocks haha. Most of the delay was covered until Vadodara and now it was time to get some food. I decided to go for e-catering at Surat. I opened the app and decided to order from Tipsy - Topsy restaurant as I had heard about it a lot. I got my food delivered at Surat and it took me 10 minutes just to open the plastic seal yes the heat seal was too much but the taste of the food made up for the frustration. After Surat, my co passenger, the passenger from the upper berth got down as his stop as approaching, we talked for a bit about our destinations and he eventually got off at Vapi, I lied down for the night and the train arrived at Vasai Road at almost its scheduled time, albeit a few minutes delayed. The coach was half empty at this point and at Panvel, some ladies came to their allotted adjacent seats. I slept soon enough and woke up when the train was traversing through the mountains, rivers and forests of Konkan region. I was mesmerised by all of it and clicked a lot of pictures and made some videos. Now the train was more than an hour delayed, reason i don’t know. The train halted at Karmali for good 10 minutes and covered a lot of its delay until Madgaon. It was a great humid experience in Goa in November, thanks to Arabian Sea. After departure from Madgaon, the train soon entered in Karnataka, the first halt of the state was, Karwar, a small but beautiful station. The train had some unscheduled halts between Karwar and Udupi but the real torture began after departure from Udupi. Even though, the train gained a respectable speed of 100 kmph but it lasted for a couple of minutes until Nandikoor, the train halted there for quite some time and the story of unscheduled halts continued until my destination, Mangaluru JN. Now, the reason of all the unscheduled halts was 01185 LTT - MAJN Special Express, kinda unbelievable as the special train was getting more priority than our SuperFast train. Anyways, the train arrived Mangaluru after a delay of more than an hour.

Took me quite some time to envision and pen down.

Thanks for reading such a long article

-Gagan

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No bro, study and part time job
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Lucid writing, well written. I wondered how you whiled away your time of 240+ minutes at night in NZM. IMO, your travelogue was brief and crisp (since you have mentioned it was a lengthier one). Also, you have chosen one of the best months to travel through konkan to witness it's beauty (post monsoon) in which both high speed run in and the lush greenery both could be witnessed. The pristine beauty of konkan is such that it will make us to take more photos. It has been very long since I have travelled via konkan.
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Well, time just flew by watching videos on phone and eating snacks 😂🤣 and just walking on the platform. I agree, it was a very beautiful experience in Konkan
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Well written Gagan.

I overlooked the part where you mentioned your second train and assumed it was MAO Rajdhani while reading the OT part. And I was very confused in the end. Then I read everything again :P

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the best time to explore most of the parts of India. Monsoon beauty is still there sans the downsides and the weather is extremely pleasant.

The four hour wait time brought back bad memories, as every single time I've to wait the trains get late and there's nothing I can do, because I don't carry power banks and my phone's battery is chronically low.

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_/\_:October and February-March spring
I'm glad you liked it 😁 I'm never really bothered by waiting as I don't get bored usually 😂 so, waiting for 4 hours was fine for me.
P.S, I travelled in the beginning of November and that time of the year is certainly awesome to travel
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Back to home after a wonderful Pujo in Kolkata.

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Humko bina bataye aa gaye the?
Atleast ek meet up to ho jata!
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22543/44 Lalkuan Bandra Weekly SF Express by NER
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Ek bandra terminus ki train toh Katihar bhi deserve karta hai yr.Next year dede election m.
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Yesterday (23:37)   02358/Koderma - Mumbai LTT SF Inaugural Special | KQR/Koderma Junction (7 PFs)
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Inaugral Time Table of Gaya-LTT Express.
Train will be inaugurated from Koderma Junction.
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Koderma se inauguration ka matlab hai Jharkhand me elections hain. PM, SM itna nahi sochna hota hai, utna khud IR bhi nahi sochta.
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Jharkhand election will be announced in 1-2 weeks, so that's the main reason for inauguration from Koderma
MPs of Koderma and Hazaribagh demanded for this train.
If this train was from Gaya point of view, then it would have been via Ddu-Pcoi-Jbp.
Anyways seeing the lack of Mumbai bound train from Gaya, this will also be useful for Gaya.
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ECR can never introduce a long distance train from Jharkhand if that train doesn't touches the boundary of Bihar state.

This has been a major loss for the people of Dhanbad and Giridih.

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rehi baat election ki toh Bihar VS 2025 ki v taiyari shuru ho gyi hai is train ke sath....umeed hai jaldi Gaya ko Bengaluru ki v train mil jaygi

Baki Dhanbad bhad me jay RB/ECR ko farq nhi padta...bs koyla milta rehna chahiye.

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Booking started
Only 3A and 2A booking is there. Seems like 3-4 3A and 1 2A. No Sleeper in inaugural run. Some scratch rake.
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