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Blog Entry# 619288
Posted: Dec 22 2012 (23:05)

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Dec 22 2012 (23:05)   SEL/Sankrail (4 PFs)
 
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Short Notice Railfanning Trip to a Tinsel Town (SANKRAIL) Station in SER.
A Really Short Notice RF Trip inviting Few of the known Kolkata resident IRI members apart from the Kolkata RF Group, we invited Saurabh,Prakash and Joydeep.
However due to Pre-Occupations,
Only Myself,Dipyaman Basu,PKV Sir and Arkya could make it to the final line-up while Wrik** proposed to join us at the venue
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at around 5pm from the pre-ocupations he had enroute the Venue.
As planned before,PKV,DB and Arkya gathered at Howrah and after buying a Return UTS Ticket for ALL 3 set out to the venue taking the 1615pm PKU EMU from Howrah.
While myself wanted to enjoy the RF day, left my house at 230pm, A full 90 mins early to catch the Intercities lined up for Afternoon with CORO.
As i setup my position at Ramrajatala, a couple of RPF personnel was found strolling down the station, not sure they were on Duty or they were in other work across the station, tried to find myself a place on a FOB at the station.
As i waited to catch some views of the passing trains,suddenly found some harsh honking from across the Howrah Side.Thinking what could be it so late with Alco,it appeared from a distance and judging from the length of the rake, it was the RSA rake of 18001 Hwh - Digha KANDARI Exp.

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As the EMU was approaching RMJ,I got a call from PKV that the coach they have boarded is totally Packed and i can board any coach and we will meet at Sankrail.
We were already delayed by an Hour due to some reasons and reached Sankrail - the Stating Station of the High Speed Corridor of HWH KGP Section.
As we embarked at Sankrail,we are greeted by a KGP HWH EMU and we found WRIK** keeping his promise to meet us at Sankrail.He was still running Heavy with HUGE Delicacies he had at
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a Ceremonial house and he was stillcarrying the Food Menu which is offered here before the foods are dished out.
Amazing Menus and food items and Myself and DB immediately felt we could head towards that ceremonial house leaving RF-ing.
However as were discussing about devolopements and other stories of IRI, 12827 HWH PRR Intercity sped past us max at 60kmph and followed by few EMU's here and there.
Meanwhile WRIK** left us at 530pm for his further engagements and we concentrated on RF-ing and discussions of IRI and IR while some EMU's passed us.
Myself,Arkya and DB was waiting for some Fast Action at Sankrail for which we opted for this station but to our dismay we hadn't seen any till that time.
18646 EAST COAST Exp strolled past us.Meanwhile we were for 12848 DGHA Duronto,Falaknuma and RajyaRani to dust out the station at high speed.
At around 555pm,Rajya Rani zoomed past us at MPS with 6-7 coach Intercity driven by SRC P-4.Couldn't see the LOCO number neither could capture it as it was almost dark.
Within Minutes at about 6 pm, An Extremely Highly motivated TATA WAM-4 brought 12813 STEEL exp at MPS through Reverse Middle Line followed by a MIDNAPUR FAST EMU at 60-70 kmph and followed within 5 minutes by HWH - ADRA Shiromani FAST passenger with a TATA WAM-4 again.
Amazing luck for us in an instance.
4 trains in 15 mins time span;ALL travelling at MPS and really turning the station into DUST BOWL.Satisfied with the acievements but disappointed not to spot Falaknuma and DGHA Duronto, we headed out to our places.
i decided to accompany them till Howrah whilei can comeback to RMJ for my home.
While we decided to have some Mega Foods at COMESUM, while we reached there to decide against it and limited ourselves to LASSI for Arkya nd DB while Myself and PKV resorted to COFFEE.
We departed soon after and satisfying that WE WERE ABLE TO MEET EACH OTHER AFTER LONG GAP.
I myself met DB 2nd time in 2 months, Arkya after almost 6 months.
Also we had planned a bit for our next outing which we all promised to be another heck of an activity as the planning have begun yesterday only.
Thanks for being part of this Report.Nothing big as much as we decided to be on viewing pleasure only as ARKYA who had been on an RF tour the previous day at HAUR Station of HWH KGP Section with amazing number of videos which he will be uploading in very short time.

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