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Blog Entry# 5458780
Posted: Aug 24 2022 (16:27)

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Aug 24 2022 (16:27)   12860/Gitanjali Express (PT) | HWH/Howrah Junction (23 PFs)
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Entry# 5458780            Tags   Past Edits
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3/4 is HWH CSMT Mail (Via GAYA)
307/308 is Black Diamond
309/310 is Coalfield
No idea about rest of the trains

Synopsis:
HWH CSMT Mail (Via GAYA) is speeded up but Black Diamond and Coalfield is not speeded up at all since decades.

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1/2 is HWH CSMT Mail (Via NGP)
29/30 is SHM LTT
59/60 is Gitanjali
133/134 is HWH ADI
No idea about rest of the trains

Synopsis:
HWH CSMT Mail (Via NGP) and SHM LTT is indeed speeded up but Gitanjali on the other hand is massively slowed down.

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Aug 25 2022 (21:57)guest
Re# 5458780-30               Past Edits
I have seen the entire book, no mention of CIC section, maybe it doesn’t have schedules of all the routes
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Aug 25 2022 (22:24)
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Re# 5458780-31              
After introduction of 75/76 puri-new delhi Neelachal express via Mgs-Bsb-Ald (initially not via lko), Utkal & Kalinga exp have been merged and rechristened as triweekly Kalinga-utkal express, Later this train have been made daily.
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Aug 26 2022 (00:17)
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I used to collect railway time tables (the zonal ones as well as Trains at a Glance). Mid 70s through late 80s have some of my best memories. My time table collection went back to long before I was born: 1969, thanks to my dad. Back then, Gitanjali's predecessor was an AC Express. Mail had far fewer stops than it does today (Sakti, Kharsia, Bhatapara, Tumsar Rd in SECR, back then SER, were added).

My dad's elder brother was railway traffic controller based in Dhanbad back then, I recall having plenty of
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conversations and visits to his office when visiting.

Interestingly enough, Asansol-Dhanbad section was quicker than it is today (I traveled a lot on Coal Field and Black Diamond Express between HWH and DHN, the only way to get to DHN from Raipur at the time). Coal Field Express ran on a screaming little Japanese electric locomotive... I wonder what happened to those.

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Aug 26 2022 (02:28)guest
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Really nice to see that you are also interested in collecting old archives of railways.
Thanks a lot for sharing so valuable information about Railway history.
About Asansol Dhanbad section I agree that it was way faster than it is today. I will also be uploading the timetable of trains of this section very soon.
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In 1960s-1970s circa the entire DHN Division of today was in ASN Division. Also DDU Division was in ASN Division, thus there were no slacks added. Thus it felt quicker, even upto 2000s when DHN was in ER slacks were not present.
It was only when ECR was formed, time tables started getting more slacks.
Also nowadays more and more PSRs are being added as there is huge illegal mining going on close to the tracks.
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