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Blog Entry# 2134334
Posted: Jan 21 2017 (01:13)

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Jan 21 2017 (01:13)  
SingleTraveller^~
SingleTraveller^~   3249 blog posts
Entry# 2134334              
Do you like travelling in passenger trains, where the train stops at almost every station and waits endlessly for freight/other Exp, SF trains to cross/overtake them? If so, please share your memorable experiences of the journey, comfort and the little wayside stations enroute.
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Yes. I like to travel by passenger trains.
59%
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I don't like them. but will travel if needed.
41%
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I will never set foot in a passenger train in my life.
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Jan 23 2017 (13:53)
TheMadrasMail~
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Yes. And more often than not, I enjoy the trips by passenger trains much more than any others. The sheer variety of people we get to meet, and the unrestricted rail-fanning opportunities are just too good.
A few of my favorites.
1) Kakinada to Visakhapatnam : I used to regularly take this passenger to and fro between Kakinada and Visakhapatnam. It's a short run;only about 4 hours, but it's a great journey, interacting with a multitude of people. And more often than not, I used to come across people
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who were regulars on the train. It was quite fun introducing them to rail-fanning. A few days of watching me observe loco links, loco numbers, track circuits in the route etc, were enough to get these people interested in what I was doing. And they found rail fanning to be an interesting thing that made the long halts at intermediate stations fun, instead of being boring. The Eastern ghats running nearby after Annavaram also make the morning journeys in this train quite enjoyable.
2) The most memorable however, would be a trip from SBC to CCT by passengers till BZA. I took a chain with the SBC-AJJ passenger from WFD to AJJ ( about 8 hours of day time journey), about 3 hours of rail fanning there, then took the passenger to RU. Another 3 hours of waiting there, got into a heavily crowded TPTY-COA passenger at 1:30 in the night. Being the Sankranti time, the train was way too crowded and it was impossible to find a place to sit on the train.
Despite the heavy crowding, the passengers were very courteous. The men gave up their spots on the upper berths and the luggage racks to women and children to sleep and once in a while one person would wake up somebody sleeping on the floor or leaning against the wall and offer them their place to sleep as they had slept for a couple of hours already. I decided to wing it and pulled a night-out. That journey is one of the most memorable I've had on Indian railways.
The train takes about 11 hours to reach BZA from RU. Despite being the festival season with lots of special trains, I was surprised to see that my train was running before time! We were halted at several stations between RU and GDR, in the dead of the night, very silent surroundings, a cool breeze and half-lit stations, with a bunch of people getting down from the train at every halt and chatting up until the train moved again.
My train reached BZA just on time ( a first of sorts for this train) and I got down to take my favorite train 17205 to Kakinada instead of continuing in the passenger which also goes to CCT. After 4 hours of rail fanning at BZA, got to enjoy a speedy run on a late running 17205, which covered up almost half an hour of delay, trolled Coromandel and overtook my passenger at Gudaparti about 20 minutes before CCT.
36 hours of sleepless train journey, with a standing journey for 24 hours in passengers!! Best experience ever. :)

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Jan 23 2017 (14:05)
Abhishek Dubey   16640 blog posts
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Like only if the terrain is beautiful
Ex if u travel in a shuttle from et to ngp, Knw to Manmad Konkan railway etc
Agr normal terrain ho to boriat h phr shuttle
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Jan 25 2017 (21:05)
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Yes. I love to travel in crawler trains especially in 11057/58
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Jan 25 2017 (21:10)
Rf_Shanku^~
Rf_Shanku^~   4750 blog posts
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I like to travel in 51701/2.
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Jan 28 2017 (20:52)
Aravind KS~   184 blog posts
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I like to travel in Passenger Trains only if it is not crowded and during day time only
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