A meet with PKV<br />--------------------<br />As a railfan, each one of us has some obsession or some sort of preference. Where ...
more... class="reversehighlighted">zahaib prefers weird long routes at times, pkv prefers connecting trains, shashank prefers fastest trains and Teja prefers confirm berth by any route, I have an obsession too...<br />I am obsessed with weeklies and bi weeklies. My love for them refuses to diminish. Another obsession which I would like to share is I hate repeating trains. I ll seldom prefer a train I have travelled once and will change any no.of trains to avoid that...<br />With reference to the above obsession, I am onboard hlz mas sangrami express. I would like to inform that when I booked sangrami, plenty of seats were vacant in Duronto. And I am not destined to Chennai, hence I ll have to change a train at Chennai. To board sangrami I had to leave my home an hour earlier than I would have had I boarded Duronto. Also I would have reached Bangalore a minimum of 12 hrs earlier, but still I preferred a route involving two transfers and twelve hours extra. No wonder why we are rail fans.<br />So I booked a telescopic ticket from kharagpur to Bangalore via Chennai and planned to board an emu from howrah to kharagpur. When I Informed my plans to PKV sir, he was courteous enough to accompany me to kgp, even if it meant that he had to return all alone.