I travelled in the 22824 NDLS BBS Raj between CNB-KGP. Kanpur station was surprisingly clean and the cheap, average food was available at PF 1. As soon as I finished my dinner, I was greeted with the legendary Toofan Express which was soon followed by the puny CNB Shatabdi. RNC Rajdhani led the Raj gang and soon, RNC,SDAH and DBRT were all standing in parallel. The DBRT Rajdhani went first followed by ER Queen. RNC Rajdhani was shown its 'class'; it stayed put at CNB for over 100 mins and ALL Raj overtook it.
It was my first time in an LHB coach. The interiors of the coach was fine but the bathrooms' lock was malfunctioning. And soon, the wappie took lead...
more... and so did the LHB-style jerks. During ALD-MGS stretch, when the train was doing 130 kph, the vestibules were shaking so greatly. Eitherways, we reached MGS at bang, right time and xinged with Swarna Jayanti Exp.
OBHS staff cleaned the coach in the morning and a basic breakfast was served, nothing too great. We reached TATA 10 mins late and KGP 20 mins late overtaking couple of passengers in the way.A WAP-4 took charge of BBS Raj from KGP towards BBS[WAP-7 served for NDLS-KGP].