VCD fitted WAP-4 winks while hauling Shalimar- LTT Express through Phuleshwar station
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Its not only human beings, but locos too, who winks when interested. Note the same happens at 00:10. VCD (Medha Vigilance Control Device) fitted 22635 WAP-4 of HWH shed honks, and cruises past Phuleshwar (Fuleshwar) station at an average speed through the Up Main line. Please don't mind. An EMU...
more... was running ahead of it. And being a Kolkata- Mumbai Passenger (though name mentions it as an Express), it is made to run after the EMU. Other trains like Puri Duronto, Kandari Express and Coromandel Superfast Express used the Up Reverse line to blast past at over 100 km/hr. 18030 Shalimar (SHM)- Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) Express was running bang on time. The station falls on SER's Howrah- Kharagpur stretch.
The train uses the LTT- Kalyan- Manmad- Bhusaval- Akola- Badnera- Nagpur- Gondia- Durg- Raipur- Bilaspur- Jharsaguda- Rourkela- Tatanagar- Kharagpur- Santragachi- Shalimar route, and takes 38 hours 25 minutes to cover the 1947 kms with an irritating 81 halts enroute. The train is still popularly known as KURLA Express.
Giving me company on the trip was railfan Vivian Boye.