This was the only train properly connecting GKP and AY[if we skip the few weeklies that exist] and had decent occupancy each time I saw it. If anything, they should have cancelled one of the Gonda bound passengers since enough trains run b/w GD and GKP as it is. Manwar Sangam COULD be a replacement service but unless and until it is extended to GKP[which it won't until the tracks b/w AY - PBH are improved]; I think this passenger train ought to have run.

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee onboard Shatabdi Express

Today Hon'ble CM left for Malda by HWH-NewJalpaiguri Shatabdi Express from Howrah

Pic credit - Suman Mukhopadhyay.

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A dramatic photograph, undoubtedly an over-done one. Actually, one can regard it as a miserable attempt to reproduce the grandeur of ghat section because no photo can match the enigma and enchantment of real Gurpa-Gujhandi section, physically being there is a bliss. For the person who has ever witnessed the vibrance of this section, ever been enthralled by the enigma of that section can't just find the same in any pic especially when it is one overcooked version.

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Govt ab saare decisions waps le rhi hai.

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