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Blog Entry# 967435
Posted: Jan 17 2014 (23:52)

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Jan 17 2014 (23:52)   12245/Howrah - SMVT Bengaluru Duronto Express
 
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TRIP report part 1---travelled in this on 11.1.14 3ac. very good train but way too much slack given . journey time can be easily cut down by 1 hr . started effectively 15 mins late from hwh due to chain pulling/signal , made up with non stop run till mancheswar ,,stormed thru balasore , bhadrakh , jajpur ,entered bbs 5 min before , left 5 mins before as well . then from bbs to vzm it was a dream run , hardly ever got an amber .. hats off to ecor ,, who put their own rajdhani behind a freight nd gave all clear to the duro..:P reached vzm 37 mins before . left 37 mins before as well .. after vzm it struggled a bit when it was stopped for 10 mins near simhachalam ,, then i went to sleep. woke up to see that the train was coming to...
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an unscheduled halt at a big station . time was 01.19 . i thought it would be samalkot ,which wud mean we wer 10 min before .., the train slowly enterd nd came to a stop .. to my surprise , the station board read rajah mundry .. which meant we wer actually more than an hour before time ! stopped at tadepalligudem at 2 am ,, and again for full 15 mins before BZA . but dat didnt prevent us from entering BZA 1 hr before time at 3.50 am .

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part 2-at BZA , we met down TN which soon left at around 4 am . announcements were on for up TN as well . we had a long stop of 37 mins and finally left at 4.27 am . woke up at 7.30 to find that we were crossing NLR ,, once again more than an hour before time . from NLR to GDR we went a bit slowly becoz of caution nd amber . took around 40 mins . we stopped for a while at GDR before reaching RU outer at 9.15 am .. here we were stopped for full 25mins . finally we ambled into RU at 9.50 am , 35 mins before time. Had idli nd vada at RU . left at 10.03 am ..we were given the green nd durontobabu continued on its merry way.. crossed katpadi at 11.40 and then crawled thru JTJ at 12.40...
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pm . we were held upfor 10 mins before bangarapet . then we ambled along amber signals. we poeple were standing on the door in hope of duronto stopping at wfd or kjm . soon we approached wfd at 2.35 pm as expected the duro slowed down giving a massive brake , nd people were about to get down but then , the LP had other plans .. soon htere was a trademark jhatka ,, nd we were accelerating thru wfd , dashing the hopes of a 100 pax ... kjm was our next hope .. but LP made sure he dint give us a chance as we rushed thru at 60 kph .. we finally stopped at BYPL at 2.53 pm . some ppl got down here . the DD crossed us . there was no pf though nd ppl got down on the tracks . we left at 3.09 pm nd ambled towards YPR . finally pulled in at 3.45 pm , 15 mins before .

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