ON A DELAYED AND DIVERTED TRAIN
Dear friends
I undertook a journey on this train from nizamuddin and mumbai on 28/12/2010 and returned on 1/1/2011.
train going to mumbai was delayed by over thirty hours while on return, it got delayed by over fourteen hours.
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more... train got delayed , there were many cancellations and there were several berths lying vacant.
train was diverted between mathura and nagda stations and took a long route via bina -bhopal(outer)-and ujjain. this diversion was a bit frustrating part of the journey as train was running pretty slow and was stopping at several points in between.
at times, it was made to wait(from 10 minutes to one hour) for passing of other trains .i wonder if this was happening to rajdhani then, what would be happening to other diverted trains!!
however, as usual staff on board was hospitable enough and served passengers with extra meals and snacks.
overall, both of my journeys took around 27 hours to complete, which is 10 hours more than usual.
i hope, this ongoing agitation comes to end soon as this is causing great deal of inconvenience to thousands of passengers on a daily basis.
i hope this information might be of help to some people.
thanks and regards
bharat