Interiors of HB-1 (AC First cum AC Three Tier) coach of 19717 Sabarmati BG - Daualtpur Chauk Express.

The First AC Side of the coach has 10 seats spread across 2 Cabins (4 seats) and 1 Coupe (2 seats)
The AC Three Tier side of the coach has 30 seats.
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There are no HB-1 type coaches available in the LHB stock. Only ICF made such coaches. At present only 3 trains run with such coaches which are;
1. 19717/18 Sabarmarti-Daulatpur Chowk Express
2. 15715/16 Kishanganj-Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express
3. 15721/22 New Jalpaiguri-Digha Paharia Express.

Regards,
Raj Upadhyay

Kalyan WDG-4 70181 hauling 09008 Thivim-Mumbai Central Ganpati Special skips Andheri running parallel with Vadodara WAP-4 22394 hauled 19044 Bhagat Ki Kothi-Bandra Terminus Humsafar Express.
I was really very lucky to be at the right place at the right time to capture this one in a million type parallel action. Because, after all the trains were taken on AC Electric link. There were no scheduled trains from Mumbai Central, Dadar and Bandra Terminus which departed with a diesel locomotive.
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link. That itself is rare and cherry on the cake being the Humsafar running parallel towards Bandra Terminus on the 5th line.
Video shot on 22nd September, 2018.
With this video, I end my streak of daily uploads on Youtube. I started uploading a video from 25th March, 2020 on daily basis. Today, after 95 days, on 28th June, 2020, I take a break from daily uploads. I'll keep uploading videos every now and then though.

Ernakulam WDM-3A 16457 hauling 12052 Madgaon-Dadar Jan Shatabdi Express overtakes Ernakulam WDM-3A 14075 hauled 12283 Ernakulam-Hazrat Nizamuddin Duronto Express at Kolad.
The train on the adjacent loop was Kalyan WDG-3A hauled 50103 Dadar-Ratnagiri Passenger.
This is an scheduled overtake, as the Duronto has a lot of loose timing on the section. Hence, giving preference to the Jan Shatabdi which has an aggressive time table.
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12283-84 Ernakulam-Hazrat Nizamuddin Duronto Express introduced with Hybrid LHB coaches now runs with LHB rake.
Video shot on 19th February, 2014.

Twin Ernakulam WDM-3A 16459+16293 hauling 16338 Ernakulam-Okha Express arrives Okha an hour behind the schedule. The gantry of lower quadrant home signal of Okha can be seen at the end.
Okha is the westernmost railway station of India. Geographically it's Varvala 2 stations before Okha but no trains terminate or originate from Varvala.
Okha railway station comes under Rajkot Division of Western Railways.
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the section from Rajkot to Okha is under Electrification. Also replacing the old semaphore signals (seen in the video) to the newer MACLs.
Video shot on 2nd June, 2019.

Compilation of videos of ICF and LHB Karnavati Express hauled by WCAM-2P, WAP-4 and WAP-5 locomotives.
Karnavati Superfast Express is one of four express trains belonging to Indian Railways that offer Chair Car services between Ahmedabad Junction (ADI) and Mumbai Central (BCT) in India. It operates as train number 12934 from Ahmedabad Junction to Mumbai Central and as train number 12933 in the reverse direction serving the states of Maharashtra & Gujarat.
It is named after Rani Karnavati. Karnavati was also a proposed name for the renaming of Ahmedabad.
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Express was introduced on 1st July, 1991 and it was converted to LHB on 24th September, 2014. Now it runs on a HOG enabled LHB rake and it's hauled by a WAP-7 HOG locomotive from Vadodara Shed.