BLN/Ballygunge Junction (4 PFs)

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Track: Quadruple Electric-Line

Weekly blog is here.
Week of 6th October 2019 to 12th October 2019.
4 days of RailFanning and with many IRI members.
Day 1 :- 7th October 2019.
Day 2 :- 8th October 2019....
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Day 3 :- 9th October 2019.
Day 4 :- 11th October 2019.
Blog is divided into 2 parts as the number of photos are more than 50.
Reply 1 have 6 photos of 11th October 2019.
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Day 1 Journey to TATA and RF with Vikas and Abdus.
Picture 1 :- My train to TATA, 12871 Ispat ICF Rake's B1.
Picture 2 :- TATA Steel Liveried TATA WAP 7 30614 with 18616 Kriya Yoga Express.
Picture 3 :- The 3rd TATA WAP 7 to get TATA Steel Livery, TATA WAP 7 37061 at KGP ETS.
Picture 4 :- Vegetable Breakfast of Ispat in nice package. Taste is very good.
Picture 5 :- TATA outer.
Picture 6 :- The official 'Muh Dikhaai' of WAP 7 39094 after getting commissioned and TATA stencils. Once again a DMW WAP 7 of TATA was spotted by Vikas and me on the same day. 39011 and 39058 were the previous ones.
39094 arrived with 58104 BBN TATA Passenger.
Pictures 7 and 8:- SRC WAP 7 37108 with 12871 Ispat departing TATA.
Pictures 9 and 10:- TATA Large SB with TATA WAP 7 30762 ready to depart with 58032 TATA CKU Passenger.
Pictures 11 and 12 :- MGS WAP 4 22722 brings in 12876 Neelachal Express to TATA. With this Abdus Samad joins us.
Pictures 13,15 and 16 :- Brand new GMO WAP 7 37234 with 13301/2 Swarnrekha Express.
Picture 14 :- TATA WAP 7 39012 with 12262 HWH CSMT Duronto.
PIcture 17 :- TATA large SB and TATA WAP 7 30764 with 58661 TATA HTE Passenger.
Picture 18 :- Original Cab R WDG 4 12200 going towards TATA yard.
Picture 19 :- VSKP WAP 4 25000.
Picture 20 :- AJNI brothers AJNI WAP 7 39003 and AJNI WAG 7 27123.
Picture 21 :- A fleet of freight haulers at TATA ETS which is lead by WAG 7 24568 of BIA.
Picture 22 :- Barbie of TATA, TATA WAG 7 27198.
Picture 23 :- Very rare one BIA WAG 5 23054 (Ghost Livery) with ROU WAG 9HC 32277.
Picture 24 :- A close up of AJNI WAP 7 39003.
Specially captured for Abhishek Vivek. It is his Rajni of AJNI. 😅
Pictures 25 and 26 :- The 45th WAP 7 of TATA. WAP 7 39094 resting at ETS.
Pictures 27 and 28 :- 12872 LHB Ispat's C1 and B1. Samad departed TATA by Ispat. He booked in Current when only 2 seats were available in CC still was lucky enough to get a WS in C1. Loco in lead was TATA WAP 7 37066.
Picture 29 :- TATA WAP 7 37209 at PF 5 with 18102 Muri SF.
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Day 2 RF at TATA alone.
Picture 30 :- TATA Large SB.
Picture 31 :- 12262 HWH CSMT Duronto arriving TATA with SRC WAP 7 37003.
Pictures 32 and 33 :- My favourite loco TATA WAP 7 37075 at TATA ETS. Happy to see it back after doing some Mega Offlink duties with 15279/80 Poorabiya, 12625/6 Kerala, 16343/4 Amritha and last but not the least with 12802/1 Purusottam.
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Day 3 RF with Vikas at TATA and Sreerup, Samad and his brother at HWH.
Pictures 34 and 35 :- My link of 12814 TATA Steel Express, TATA WAP 7 37121 captured before departing TATA.
Pictures 36 to 38 and 40 :- TBs of 12814/3 TATA Steel Express and Swachh Bharat Mission advertisement.
Pictures 39 and 41 :- Large SBs of TATA and RHE.
Picture 42 :- Chicken Cutlet and Bread Butter from Steel's pantry service.
Picture 43 :- An old picture of TATA Station then known as Kalimati Railway Station pasted inside C3 of TATA Steel Express.
Pictures 44 and 45 :- TATA WAP 7 37121 captured at HWH.
Picture 46 :- Swachh Bharat messages at Howrah.
Picture 47 :- HWH WAP 7 37116 with 12322 Imperial Mail.
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Day 4 RF with Sreerup, Rahul, Bhavesh, Samad and his brother at SDAH.
Picture 48 :- BIA WAG 9H 31772 going light towards BLN, captured at PQS.
Picture 49 :- KZJ WAG 9H 31977 light at SDAH.
Picture 50 :- HWH WAP 4 22377 parked at SDAH.
Pictures 51 to 56 in the next reply.

If anyone asks me which was my best spotting of 2020? Then surely my answer will be BWN WDM 3A 16657. What a stunning work by ER/BWN. Notice the chakra around the shed name. Awesome it is. Clicked at BWN. With this I am presenting you all my last blog of 2020, an Eastern Railway Collection.
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Pictures 2 and 3 captured on 11th November 2020 :- 02314 NDLS - SDAH AC COVID - 19 Special (Rajdhani) with HWH WAP 7 37214 at SDAH.
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Pictures 4 to 6 captured on 26th November 2020 :- HWH WDP 4D 40429, Fortune Liveried Ex BRC now HWH WAP 5 30115 captured just after it was marked as HWH and original allotment HWH WAP 5 fitted with ABB HOG set 30196.
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Picture 7 captured on 18th December 2020 :- BWN WAG 9HC 32861 with a BCNA rake stabled at BLN outer.
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Picture 8 :- Large TB of 03145/6 KOAA - RDP - KOAA COVID 19 Special clicked at KOAA.
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Pictures 9 to 12 :- A treat for every RailFan ~ ALCo with a LHB train, BWN WDM 3A 16450R ready to depart KOAA with 03181 KOAA - SHTT Kaziranaga COVID - 19 Special.
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Pictures 13 to 15 :- RPH to BWN Passenger with HWH WAP 4 22405 as its power. Clicked at BWN. The Maroon Green livered coaches gave me a nostalgic feeling because during 1999-2000 when I used to travel by Kanchanjunga Express to GHY I always saw the SBG loop RSA passengers with the same liveried coaches and that time they usually got WDM 2 from BWN DLS.
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Pictures 16 and 17 :- BWN WDM 3A 14020R with 03162 BLGT - SDAH Tebhaga COVID - 19 Special at KOAA.

~Pictures 1 and 8 to 17 were clicked on 28th December 2020.
Thank you and wish you a wonder 2021 in advance. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😁.
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