Trip Report:
Decided to take break from my daily routine from 16-20 of August.
My Plan- Hyd- VSKP( De boarded @ rjy) , RJY- HWH & HWH- Pune( Duranto de boarded @ manmad as per my Plan
Reached Rjy on 17th @ 7.40 am to board train 12840 from Rjy- Hwh after booking tatkal ticket. Had yearly breakfast opp to Rjy station....
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Had some rail fanning to do 7.40 am. Arrived king of SR corrmandal express and had couple of Minutes stoppage on Platform # 1. Next train to arrive is Src- Maq viveka express with no Pantry and no water in Sleeper coaches people were running to fill the water bottles and trying to brush stoppage time itself. All the compartments had more passengers than allotted quota . Only Compartment which was vacant was disable coach in this train
In between Plat form # 3 @ 8.15 am arrived Mas- Dirbugha town express, Normally in Sleeper class total number of seating and sleeping is 72 , but unfortunately not for this train in each compartment there ware at least 50-60 in excess in each compartment train departed after 2 min halt. Then @ 8.40 arrived Ratnachal express( twin brother of Satvahan express) people who were boarding were surprised to seen not much crowd in all the compartments. At 9.16 Arrived Howrah mail with sharp 9.16 am and left in couple of minutes. Occupied my seat B-3 . tried to book normal Sleeper coach in Tatkal luckily 3rd a/c was available so booked ticket. Fortunately I didn’t book sleeper coaches same case here more number of passenger in sleeper coaches, necessity is mother of invention I had never seen such adjusting mentality of people all this years, good to see that sort helping nature of people to adjust there seats with other people of same state. Reached sharp 1.40 at Vskp though it had pantry car food was loaded at VSKP. Change of loco from Erode to Santrachi and left vskp 2.00 and train was running almost 15-20 minutes delay all through route. My side upper berth didn’t get filled till it reached BBS. Stopped at Khurda road for 10 Minutes for reloading of food nothing available to eat on this plat form. After having after noon lunch from Irctc guy this time I have decided not have my dinner. On Plat form # 4 at Khurda road Shalimar- Sec express arrived no announcement of my train departure just left the Station and arrived at BBS. Then has good sleep till we reached Khargapur train was almost 1 hr late we reached 3.45 am ,but covered the Distance from Khargapur to Hwh in span of Just 45 Minutes arrived at @ Hwh 4.33 on Plat form # 23
To be Continued