Furious KGP WDG-3A IRCTC Aastha Circuit Tourism Special at its rampaging best smokes away!!
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In a section where E-Locos dominate the diesels like anything, getting a diesel hauled train is like a blessing. And when the Loco is from a shed which hardly gets any mainline Mail/ Express duty, it simply can't get any better.
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more... 3A, the Malati Patpur (MLT)- Kamakhya (KYQ) IRCTC AASTHA CIRCUIT TOURIST SPECIAL races past Madhusudanpur station on ER's HB Chord enroute at its raw MPS.
Northeast Frontier Railways and IRCTC had jointly started the AASTHA CIRCUIT TOURIST SPECIAL. The pilgrimage special train connected Kamakhya with Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar and Puri. The train took tourists to many popular pilgrimage destinations like Gangasagar, Sri Swami Narayan Temple, Kalighat, Birla Temple, Sri Jagannath Temple, Konark Temple and Lingaraj Temple. The train would have various boarding and deboarding stations like Kamakhya, Alipirduar, New Coochbehar, New Jalpaiguri, Malda, Farakka, Pakur, Rampurhat, and Bolpur.