A morning at Secunderabad makes you feel lot better than what you actually are.
Went to SC this morning for booking tickets. Having dodged a father who sent her girl child onto the tracks for peeing, the whining WAP7 #30288 honk greeted me and Sai Venkat. We scolded him in ourselves and the tenth platform was awaiting the slightly late running Nizamuddin bound PrimoSupremo. Gouthami was looking as if it was about to begin its journey- clean and shiny rakes after stormy journey, and no wonder why Murthy calls it "#Darling of #SouthCentralRailways."
Guntur...
more... Intercity was leaving with customary WAP 4 from Lallaguda, and no sooner it left the turnouts enough for the Telangana power to come in, the property for which Secunderabad is famous for- Lallaguda WAP7 stood tall on platform 1, without even its rake being shunted. Konark was brought onto Platform 6. And then came the ultimate roaring beast- KRISHNARAJAPURAM WDP4 powered Bangalore City-Hazrat Nizamuddin RAJDHANI EXPRESS. I and Sai Venkat saw the way EMD was de coupled and for our surprise, the WAP 7 which greeted us was the power. I and Venkat thought of the way the Raj could possibly overtake both Konark and Guntur Intercity. Then came Murthy's MMTS. We booked tickets for our short
#traveltrip!
Then we head to Swathi Tiffins outside SC and we had mouthwatering Upma Pesarattu. Then as the quotation says "One doesn't simply pass through Alpha Hotel after breakfast without sipping in a piping hot cuppa, we did have 2/3
#HyderabadiStyle #IraniChai and Murthy couldn't resist eating a cream bun at Alpha.
Reentrance into SC, we took platformies and then Patna Express was ready for departure. It was 9:58 and the starter was already given. However Locopilot stopped until it is ten and he left bang on time, without any chain pulling. The 1998 made coaches with charging points- Welcome to South Central Railways, ladies and gentlemen!
We went on to platform ten and did some timepass. The day starting at Secunderabad for a railfan is pretty memorable and it cannot be expressed in words.
-Prithvi.