Departing from Nagercoil Junction on-board India's longest Vivek Express!! ED WAP-4 charges..
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Hauled by 22727 ED shed WAP- 4, India's longest train, aka 15905 Kanyakumari (CAPE)- Dibrugarh (DBRG) Weekly VIVEK Express departs from Nagercoil Junction 5 minutes behind schedule. And then changes points to move over to the Trivandrum bound line. The other line that is seen in the video heads...
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for Tirunelveli.
Have to admit this was by far the worst rake that I ever travelled by. Broken basins, torn and worn out cushions and seats, malfunctioning and unrepaired switches, fans and lights, insects (spiders, cockroaches, etc), coaches that seemed to have not been cleaned for ages, no toilet doors (making it impossible to go to the same) and extremely stinking foul smell welcomed us.
Vivek follows the Dibrugarh- New Tinsukia- Mariani- Dimapur- Lumding- Guwahati- Goalpara- New Bongaigaon- Alipurduar- New Jalpaiguri- Kishanganj- Malda Town- Rampurhat- Durgapur- Asansol- Adra- Bankura- Midnapore- Hijli- Bhubaneshwar- Khurda Road- Brahmapur- Vishakapatnam- Vijaywada- Renigunta- Jolarpettai- Salem- Erode- Coimbatore Main- Palakkad- Ernakulam Town (North)- Kottayam- Kollam- Trivandrum Central- Nagercoil- Kanyakumari route of NFR/ ER/ SER/ ECoR/ SCR/ SR. It covers a mammoth distance of 4243 kms in 82 hours with 54 halts, and maintaining an average speed of 54 km/hr.