Extreme monsoon Rail-fanning!! 24 trains, 7 friends, and unlimited action of Diesels, and E-locos!!
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On a wet monsoon day, when the city of Kolkata was more or less under water, I and a few crazy railfan friends decided to spare a day in a way-side station spotting trains. Location was decided to be Baruipara on HB Chord enroute. And the video takes you through all the train spotting that we did throughout the few hours.
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more... is the list of all the trains:
1) A Burdwan- Howrah EMU (Via HB Chord)
2) 12306 New Delhi (NDLS)- Howrah (HWH) Weekly RAJDHANI Express (Via Patna). Link: 30329 HWH WAP- 7.
3) 12347 Howrah (HWH)- Rampurhat (RPH) SAHEED Superfast meets 12260 New Delhi (NDLS)- Sealdah (SDAH) A.C. DURONTO Express. Links: 11475 NGC WDM- 3D and HWH WAP- 4.
4) 12042 New Jalpaiguri (NJP)- Howrah (HWH) SHATABDI Express. Link: 20003 SGUJ WDP- 4.
5) Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA)- Jammu Tawi (JAT) Express. Link: MGS WAP- 4.
6) 12024 Patna (PNBE)- Howrah (HWH) JAN SHATABDI Express. Link: 22291 HWH WAP- 4.
7) Route diverted 13028 Azimganj (AZ)- Howrah (HWH) KAVIGURU Express. Link: 11206 HWH WDM- 3D.
8) 12369 Howrah (HWH)- Haridwar (HW) KUMBHA Superfast. Link: 22404 HWH WAP- 4 "Gaurav".
9) 13162 Balurghat (BLGT)- Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA) TEBHAGA Epress. Link: BWN WDM- 3A.
10) 12357 Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA)- Amritsar (ASR) DURGIANA Bi-Weekly Superfast. Link: HWH WAP- 4.
11) 11448 Howrah (HWH)- Jabalpur (JBP) SHAKTIPUNJ Express. Link: HWH WAP- 4.
12) 12322 Mumbai C.S.T. (CSTM)- Howrah (HWH) IMPERIAL Mail (Via Allahabad). Link: HWH WAP- 4.
13) 12374 Rampurhat (RPH)- Sealdah (SDAH) Tri-Weekly INTERCITY Superfast and HCPV freight. Link: BWN WDM- 3A and WAG- 7.
14) 12318 Amritsar (ASR)- Sealdah (SDAH) AKAL TAKHT Bi- Weekly Superfast. Link: HWH WAP- 4.
15) 12023 Howrah (HWH)- Patna (PNBE) JAN SHATABDI Express. Link: 22523 HWH WAP- 4.
16) 12041 Howrah (HWH)- New Jalpaiguri (NJP) SHATABDI Express. Link: 20072 SGUJ WDP- 4.
17) 19414 Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA)- Ahmedabad (ADI) SARE JAHAN SE ACCHA Weekly Express (Via Ajmer). Link: ASN WAG- 5P
18) 12509 Bangalore City (SBC)- Guwahati (GHY) KAZIRANGA Tri-Weekly Superfast (Via Chennai, Howrah). Link: HWH WDM- 3A. The train had 9 A.C. coaches.
19) 12345 Howrah (HWH)- Guwahati (GHY) SARAIGHAT Superfast. Link: 20059 SGUJ WDP- 4. The train had 25 coaches.
20) 13152 Jammu Tawi (JAT)- Kolkata Chitpur Terminal (KOAA) Express. Link: 22051 MGS WAP- 4.
21) 12313 Sealdah (SDAH)- New Delhi (NDLS) RAJDHANI Express meets 12382 New Delhi (NDLS)- Howrah (HWH) POORVA Superfast (Via Gaya, Varanasi). Links: 22242 HWH WAP- 4 "Swarnanjali" and HWH WAP- 4.
Due to some error while editing, the video of 12301 Howrah (HWH)- New Delhi (NDLS) RAJDHANI Express (Via Gaya) got erased. You could see the remains of the deleted video in the form of a WAP- 7 just before the last video.