Flying Ranee Express Brutally Overtakes The AK Rajdhani!!
Date: May 6, 2013
Time: 9:27 am
Location: Kandivali
These two classic trains never lose an opportunity to face off each other it seems!
The...
more... late running 12922 Flying Ranee Superfast is usually overtaken by the 12954 AK Rajdhani at Palghar. Today however, the Ranee was running behind schedule - and the overtake happened at Dahanu Road itself, 120 kms north off Mumbai. The Rajdhani passed Palghar at MPS 10 minutes before the Flying Ranee arrived there at around 8:25 am.
At Borivali, the Ranee entered the platform and I found the Rajdhani waiting on platform 6. But left as soon as the Ranee stopped. However, the Ranee too left within 2 minutes and I was sure that they would encounter each other further down the line and thats exactly what happened.
At Malad, the accelerating Flying Ranee brutally overtook the Rajdhani.
Both the trains were hauled by Ghaziabad WAP 5's. The Rajdhani with WAP 5 30009 and the Ranee with WAP 5 30030.
Further down the line, at Goregaon, the Rajdhani encountered the Ranee again and both had a great parallel run till Andheri outer where the Ranee had to slow down and the Rajdhani overtook her again.
All said, no other train except maybe for a very late running (due to some issues) 12952 Mumbai Rajdhani CAN OVERTAKE the AK Rajdhani on WR, I believe!