Pompous MGS WAP-4 heading Punjab Mail thunders through Begampur at over 100 kmph
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More than 1 hour late running 13006 Amritsar (ASR)- Howrah (HWH) Mail, also known as PUNJAB Mail, headed by a madly honking 22804 MGS shed WAP- 4 blasts past Begampur station on HB Chord enroute at almost its MPS through the Down Reverse line.
This...
more... train, which even after having 53 halts, still maintains an average speed of 52 km/hr, and is not considered as a Superfast one. It is running from pre- Independence time, and is the oldest of the five trains that connects Kolkata and Amritsar. It uses the Amritsar- Jalandhar- Ludhiana- Ambala Cantt.- Saharanpur- Moradabad- Bareilly- Lucknow Charbagh- Rae Bareli- Pratapgarh- Varanasi- Mughal Sarai- Patna- Asansol- Burdwan- Howrah route of NR/ ECR/ ER.