TRIP IN HUMSAFAR EXRPESS
THE HUMSAFAR EXPRESS TRIP
Date: - Tuesday March 07 2017
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After
a long trip of Ujjain, Kolkata, Jaipur, Delhi, Indore. I came back to Bikaner
and after completing my work I decided to go back home , as always I opened the
Irctc website to see the tickets availability for trains bound to Mumbai , I always preferred Ranakpur express
but this time tickets weren’t available
so I tried to see the tickets in other train , even Bikaner – bandra sf express
was full , then I saw humsafar express , I booked the ticket in humsafar express
although the timing were very odd it departed
from Bikaner was 6 am that means I had to wake up at 4 get ready and
leave by 5 as I was 15 km away from Bikaner
jn . And its vasai arriving timing was morning 3:40 am
14715 Sri Ganganagar - Tiruchchirappalli
HumSafar Express FROM BIKANER (BIKANER ) – TO VASAI ROAD ( BSR ) , First commercial RUN FROM SRI GANGANAGAR towards Tiruchchirappalli
I arrived Bikaner station at 5:30 am and was very much
excited about travelling in humsafar express and returning to Mumbai , I saw maharaja express standing at platform :-
2 hauled by ldh wdm 3a 16122
towards jaisalmer
After clicking the pic I went to the enquiry desk to ask as
on which platform the train will arrive after The person on the desk informed
me that train will arrive on platform:- 1 and at 5:50 on time train arrived at Bikaner
station and Siliguri wdg4 12930 was hauling the train
Siliguri wdg4 12930 with Humsafer at Bikaner express
Train
Departed from Bikaner station at 6:25 , 5 min late of its actuall departure
time from bikner , the massive 4500 hp wdg-4
had picked up the speed just after leaving the Bikaner jn , It was doing mps ( maximun permissible speed ) until it reached Palana at 6:50 where it was looped for 16587 , Yesvantpur - Bikaner
Express which was hauled by KJM WDM-3A
14083 , we were kept waiting for
10 mins at loop line till the train had passed , because the whole North
western railway is single line . after the train passed, starter was given and then,
joined the main line again and started doing mps of 95 km/hr. which was maximum
allowed by any wdg-4 , just before nokha
train slowed done to 50 km/hr following the maximum permissible speed allowed
for skipping station , skip nokha at
7:30 the train was running late by 7 mins by that time , had slowed down after
2 km from Nokha as tsr was placed between it for changing the sleeper , Train gained
speed just 5 kms before chilo and then
again achieved the mps, made unscheduled halt at nagaur at 8:05, 8 mins
before time , 12301 Howrah – Bikaner link superfast express Xing us after 25
min which was hauled by abr wdm 3A 16810r , Departed from nagaur at 8:35 which
made my train delayed by 30 mins, Here are few pic clicked at nagaur junction
ABR WDM 3A 16810R WITH
12301 Howrah – Bikaner link superfast express
14715 Sri
Ganganagar - tiruchchirappalli HumSafar Express at nagaur platform: - 1
After departure from
nagaur tea seller came , pantry fare isn’t include in the ticket so I had to
pay to the Tea seller 10 rupees , which tasted more or less just like flavoured
water and order for breakfast were taken, but even that wasn’t proper cutlet with
bread were served and peanuts inside it weren’t proper cooked, even the crust
of cutlet was half burned, below is the pic of the cutlet, there after I
ordered food online for my lunch and dinner ….
Passed merta road at 9:39
which was 30 min late of its actual arriving time which is 9:09 and between
nagaur and merta road train was doing mps …. And before merta there a curve
which is almost 180 degree curve here the pic of it:-
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After
entering into merta – jodhpur section
the train almost picked mps and was first time time running stop for more than
83 kms between merta road and jodhpur junction at giving a avg of 79 kms/hr. Bgkt
wdp4d 40098 with 14708 Ranakpur express
was looped at banar ,
And military rake was at
jodhpur
Reached
jodhpur at 11:17 just a minute late then its actual arriving time at jodhpur ..!!!
it has a lot of slack between Bikaner – jodhpur
being late by more than 30 min then to it came few a min late … as I had ordered food from online because of
not proper catering available on board
Chole
bature for 99 rupees from irctc catering online
After
having lunch I nearly slept for few hrs. I woke up just few mins before marwar junction,
arrived marwar junction at 12:49. 11 mins before of it actual time of arriving
at marwar junction
Entering marwar junction
double stack and petrol tank waiting
Departed from marwar junction
at 13:02
TKD WDM 3A 18854 with
massive double stack rake.
52076 Mavli - Marwar MG Passenger (Unreserved) only
few MG Train left and this is one of last mg which was in service till 06/06/17
and after the gauge conversation of it has been approved by the railway board
After departing from marwar train was going on a
good speed till Bhinwaliya at 13:29
where it was loop for 19707 BANDRA TERMINUS
( Bdts ) – JAIPUR ( Jp ) ARAVALI
express
Offlink
abr wdg4d 70582 with 19707 BANDRA TERMINUS
( Bdts ) – JAIPUR ( Jp )
ARAVALI express
After dep from Bhinwaliya train was again looped at somesar (13:32)
for 19403/Ahmedabad - Sultanpur Express hauled by vtva 14876R wdm 3A
AFTER DEPARTING FROM
SOMEASAR WAS PRETTY MUCH DOING MPS skipping JAWLI AND RANI
stations between somesar till Khimel
, was looped again at khimel (14:02) FOR 16534/KSR Bengaluru -
Bhagat Ki Kothi Jodhpur Express (Via Guntakal)
TRAIN
WAS JUST LATE BY 5 MINS , AFTER DEPARTING FROM KhimeL
IT AS DOING MPS TILL Jawai Bandh
WHERE CAUTION ORDER OF 25 KM/HR SPEED LIMT WERE KEPT FOR REPLACEMET OF THE
TRACKS
A PIC TAKEN WHILE TRAIN WAS FOLLOWING THE CAUTION
ORDER
AFTER FOOLLOWING CAUTION
ORDERS FOR 2 KM, TRAIN AGAIN PICKUP THE SPEED UP AND NOW THIS TIME WAS DOING
THE MPS, IT CROSSED MORI BERA AT 14:46 WHERE ADI – AJMER INTERCIRY WAS WAITING
TO JOIN THE MAIN LINE AS DOUBLING PATCH WAS ONLY TILL MORI BERA FROM Swarupganj
AFTER DEPARTING FROM MORI BERA IT WAS DOING NON STOP MPS
SKIPPING ATLEST 8 STATION BACK TO BACK AND TRAIN WAS RUNNING PERFECT ON TIME
UNTILL MORTHALA WERE IT WAS HALTED FOR MORE THEN
15 MINS FOR 19223/Ahmedabad
- Jammu Tawi Express
WHILE IT LOOP FOR 15 MINS AT MORTHALA I HAD TAKEN FEW PIC OF THE
RAKE STANDING AT THE STATION
B4 MADE OF WR 16137/C
NEW SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR THE NEW LHB COACHES NEXT MAINTAINCE DATE IS 8/2019
CAOCH LWACCN NEW COUPLING SYSTEM FOR HUMSAFARA RAKE FOR
LESS JERK
THE ELECTRIC WIRE THAT IS SUPPLY FROM EOG TO EACH COACH
THE NEW AND HIGH CAPACITY BATTERY FOR HS NEW HIGH POWER PUMP FOR AC
AFTER XING WITH ADI – JAT
DEPARTED AT 16:00 FOR ITS NEXT HALT
AT ABU ROAD , REACHED ABU ROAD PLATFORM :-2 AT 16:11 , 11 MINS LATE BOTH shed sbi wdg-4 and bgkt
wdg-4 were standing at pit line with freight ,
LHF BGKT WDG4 WITH
DOUBLE STACK AND SHF WDG-4 WITH MILITARY TRAIN
DEPARTED FROM ABU ROAD AT 16:15 DELAYED BY 13 MINS ,
OVERTOOK
54803/Jodhpur - Ahmedabad Passenger AT ABU ROAD WHICH WAS STANDING AT PLATFORM:-3
54803/Jodhpur - Ahmedabad Passenger AT ABU ROAD WHICH WAS STANDING AT PLATFORM:-3
ABU ROAD STATION BOARD, AND Jodhpur - Ahmedabad Passenger
STANDING BEHIND IT
ABR WDM3A 16276 WITH 54803 Jodhpur - Ahmedabad Passenger
AFTER DEPARTING FROM ABU , TRAIN WAS DOING MPS AGAIN , THE
ABU ROAD CREW WAS VERY HARD ON THE throttle OF THE WDG-4 it and THEN THE FOR 20 MINS I HAD A SMALL NAP
, THEN I GOT A CALL FROM ONE OF MY FRND SAYING “ WHAT ARE YOU DOING “ , I REPLIED
“ I AM HAIVNG A SMALL NAP “ HE
WAS LIKE DUDE YOU ARE VISITING NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY IN DAY TIME JUST CLICK THE PICTURE OF DOUBLING
WORK AND ALSO THE ELECTRIFICATION WORK GOING ON IN NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY BETWEEN ABU ROAD AND PALANPUR WHERE THE TWO
ZONES MEET NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY AND WR
SO I WENT NEAR THE DOOR AND STARTED TAKING VIDEO AND PICS OF
THE ELECTRIFICATION AND DOUBLING
WDG4 WITH HUMSAFAR
EXPRESS NEGOTIATING A CURVE AFTER Karjoda
REACHED
Palanpur Junction (16:55) on time, 3 FRIEGHTS WHERE
WAITING FOR THE SATRTER TOWARDS ABU ROAD, AFTER HALT OF 6 MINS AT PALANPUR JUNCTION
DEPARTED AR 17:01 AND NOW THE JOURNEY IN WESTERN RAILWAY (WR) STARTS
AFTER DEPARTING FROM PALANPUR IT WASN’T MORE THE 8 KM,
THE TRAIN WAS AGAIN LOOPED AT Umardashi,
IT TOOK MORE THEN 10 MINS FOR THE FRIEGHTS FOR WHICH THE TRAIN WAS LOOPED COME,
MAKING THE ON GAOING 14715 GET AGAIN DELAY BY 10 MINS .
HERE ARE FEW PIC OF THE FREIGHT IN THE LOOP AND EVEN THE DS HIGHTED POLE
PIC :-1
DEAD VTVA WDG 3A
13486 WITH SBI WDG 4 12554 IN LHF WITH CONCOUR AT LOOP , SEE THE DOUBLE HIEGHT
POLE AT Umardashi
AFTER DEPARTING FROM THE LOOP THE TRAIN WAS DOING MPS UNLESS
IT REACH UNJHA THE HOME SIGNAL WAS RED AND TRAIN HAD SLOWED DOWN BUT BEFORE IT WAS STOPPED THE SIGNAL
TURNED GREEN AND THE PIC PICKED UP THE SPEED , ADI – ABU ROAD DEMU WAS AT UNJHA
FOR WHICH THE TRAIN WAS SLOWED ….. PIC OF THE UNJHA STATION BOARD AND THE DEMU
AT UNJHA
PIC :- 1 UNJHA
STATION BOARD
PIC :- 2 DEMU LOOPED AT UNJHA FOR XING WITH 14715
AFTER DEPARTING UNJHA THE TRAIN PICKED UP THE SPEED AND AS
USAUAL I WAS STANDING AT DOOR NOTICING THE CHANGED THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN UNJHA
– ADI AS I HAD VISITED JUST 6 MONTHS BACK ONLY AND I NOTICED A GREAT CHANGED IN
IT …
1)
ELECTRIFICATION HAD INCREASED 2 TIMES IT NORMAL
SPEED OF WHICH IT WAS
2)
THE TRAIN MPS AT CRUVES HAD ALSO IINCREASED BY
10 KM/HR WHERE PSR WERE KEPT
3)
AND MOST IMP THE DIESEL SECTION WAS NOW UNDER
WIRE
THE WIRIING
WHICH WAS A SURPRISE TO SEE
CURVE WHERE THE SPEED HAS BEEN INCREASED AND DOUBLE HIEGHT
ELECTRIC POLE WITH THE WIRE
LAND
CLEARED POST UNJHA FOR DFC
REACHED MAHESANA AT 18:16 ( 15 MINS LATE OF ITS ACTUAL TIME
OF ARRIVING ) BEFORE ENTERING MSH I SAW THESE MG TRAINS THE HERITAGE OF THE
INDAIN RAILWAY READY
SBI YDM 6280 ON A
MILITRY FALT BED WIH WHEEL BASED ROMOVED FROM THE LOCOMOTIVE
14715 ENTRING MEHASANA PLATFORM:-
3
CRANE AFTER LIFTIING THE MG MEMU ON THE FLATBED AND WORKER
FINISHING THEIR JOB
12548/Ahmedabad - Agra Fort SUPERFAST Express WAITING AT MEHASANA PLATFORM :-2
SHF WDP4 20089 HAULING 12548
Departed Mahesana
15m late AT 18:18
After departing from mahesana it now time to
do mps again till Ambliyasan where the train was again looped for the RAJDHANI
EXRPRESS
VTVA WDM-3D 11494 WITH 12957/Swarna Jayanti Rajdhani
Express
AFTER DEPARTING FROM AMBLiysan at 18:450
got a message from a friend the theirs a derailment at shaplahe , around 3-4 goods wagon had been
derailed causing blockage to trains to go and come out of Mumbai he has send me
few pics also here they are ……
Wagaons derialed bcoz of swtich been thrown ealry by
the sah station master
After getting this message and pic, I was like what .!!
returing to mumbai after months and a derailment which is going to welcome me
……..
After recovering from that sudden shock I thought of having a cup of tea and refresh the mind , as a cup of tea is a
best way to refresh from all the mood ... as I had got side lower berth which is the best seat for a person who is
travelling alone or the upper berth as more then half the train was running empty it was easy to get
any seat which is there after having a chat with tte
Train reached Ahmedabad Junction at 19:40 just 5 mins
late of its actuall timing , as it had loco change and a halt of 20 mins I
decided to walk down 13 coaches to see which loco is been given for the first
commercial run … and it was a wap 5 30076
Loco pic
After watching the loco, I ran back 13 coaches to b4 where
my seat was … I reach to coach in time and order my dinner at brc … through
travel khana...
Train departed from Adi at 20:10 (15 mins) late, after
departing from maninagar the train started acceleration it reached 110 km/hr. Post vtva
TRAIN DOING MPS WITH WAP5
Reached nadiad at 20:46 and brc p5 with karnavati departed
from nadiad and brc p5 with dd arrived and humsafar departed from nadiad at 20:48,
5 mins late of its actual time
REACHED BRC AT ONTIME
AT 21:43 AND MY
dinner was here from dominos
Garlic bread and a
medium size pizza with coke
14715
arrived brc platform:- 1 and bdts – nzm gr arrived brc platform :-2 with tkd wap7 30377 and because of the derailment 12951 was
late that day ,
HUMSAFAR
DEPRATED FROM Brc at 21:48 right on time .. 14708
Bdts – Bikaner Ranakpur express arrived brc on time with brc p7 30459 in lead
after I finished my dinner I thought to take a nap as I was going to DE board
the train at vasai road which was going to come at morning 03:35
My
sleep woke up suddenly as I heard a train honking as I had a side lower berth
near the track side.. . i saw and it was 1:00 and saw train standing at the
loop line of Vedchha , with few co
passenger awake I asked them since how long it has been waiting they answered
and I was shock to hear that it was been halted since 30 mins and 3 frights had
overtook it already , I asked them did it reach Bharuch and surat on time they
told yes with minor delayed cross both and when I called my friend to tell him that I have been looped
since 30-40 mins he answered did u forget about the derailment .. then within
few sec a wap4 honking overtook us … we weren’t given starter and was about 1h 50m late that means we were looped for 1 hr. 10 mins we left at
02:37 and the after covering a distance of less than 10 km again we were looped
at Amalsad and delay was about 1h 54m late till then when while on down line 22351 with Saurashtra mail and departed from Amalsad at 3:06 almost 2 hrs.’ 33 mins late , even when we didn’t covered more than
5 km it was looped at BIM/Bilimora Junction at 3:23 and now again Tkd
twin wag5 with boxn loaded with Coal overtook us at Bilimora …after that I knew
it the train won’t reach vasai atlest till 8 in the morning and as I didn’t had
proper sleep I again went back to my seat and I slept and this time I woke up
at 6:00 as my mobile battery went dead as of continues us I kept it for charging
, after I kept for charging I saw out of the window and saw that train is still
at valsad and I got know that one train also ot while I was sleeping and that
was the tvc raj which overtook us at Bilimora also ….right
from 6 am it was standing at valsad
platform till my mobile got 70% charge at 7am I open and called my family to
inform them and then I got to know that train is now delayed by more than 6 hrs.
21 mins late.. That’s some serious delay and that to in western railway ….
Finally accouncent went at the platform of valsad that 14715 humsafar express
is ready to depart and we departed at 7:33 and after departing from valsad
there was a line-up of down trains at valsad
Humsafar LOOPED
AT Vedchha HUMSAFAR AT Amalsad
HS LOOPED AT
BILLIMORA JUNCTION
BDTS – UDZ SUPERFAST EXPRESS BCT – BRC SUPERFAST
EXPRESS
BRC
30104 WITH DADAR – BHUJ EXPRESS
AFTER
DEPARTING FROM VALSAD THE TRAIN WAS LOOPED AT Udvada (7:45) the train was almost late
by 7 hrs. and the effect of derailment was been showed up …
After being looped for more than 15 mins I thought of having
a walk so I walked down the locomotive once again walked 13 coaches took the
pic of the loco and the eog
14715 with
brc p5 standing at Udvada
loop
Loco 30076 with
humsafar
SGNR – TPJ HUMSAFAR EXPRESS
BOARD
And for now the unexpected for the expected the Rajdhani
express and the garib rath overtakes the
humsafar express and ahead of it was the surat – virar passenger , which was
also surprising overtake ……
THE KING OF WR 12952
NDLS – BCT RAJDHANI EXPRESS
12215 DEE – BDTS GARIB
RATH EXPRESS
AFTER
15 MINS OF OVERTAKE, FINALLY WE DEPART FROM Udvada AT 8:56 are, being late by
more than 7 hrs. 20 mins …..
After
departing from Udvada the train hated at vapi at 9:00 bcoz starter wasn’t given
. And on down line the accident relief van with ratlam wdm3a towards Surat
Skipped
Umargam Road at 9:33 and overtook surat – virar shuttle
And
finally the train was back on mps from Umargam to kelve . after kelve the train
was crawling at the speed of 30-40 km/hr speed . and
then halted at sah outer ..waiting for the garib rath to clear the line
and Brc superfast is behind my train …
now its time to approach the accident spot
Ex
Rtm now Bdts wds6a with the accident
reilfe van the flat bed for the reconstruction of the tracks
The
derailed vagaon and the reparing work going while the service were on and speed restriction of 10km/hr was kept
After
the train passed from the caution spot the train started to do mps again after
6 hrs again the train started to do the mps … Garibh rath was ahead if us , the train did mps till the
naigaon where after that the train slowed down and was approaching my halt at
vasai road …
Train
reached vasai raod at 08 March 2017, 13:41:56 , train was
delayed by almost more then 7 hrs 45 min … after humsafar departed from vasai road
at 13:50
Twin
brc wap4 with brc superfast passed vasai
road at mps
HERE ARE SOME MORE PICTURE OF THE HUSMSAFAR EXPRESS
TRAIN AND COACHES
EARLY MORNIG HUMSAFAR EXPRESS PASSING THROUGH DESERT
THE
HUMSAFAR FONT IN HINDI , MARKED AT DOOR
THE
COACH IDENTIFICATION .!
SDIE
LOWER BREATH SEAT IN HUMSAFAR EXPRESS WHICH HAS ITS OWN SEPARATE CHARGING POINT
……………
THE
LCD SCREEN INSIDE HUMSAFAR CAOCH
THE
HUMSAFAR COACH WITH NEW CURTIAN IN 3A
TRAIN
GOING ON A DESENT SPEED
ABSENCE
OF REFIGARATOR AND OWEN INSIDE THE COACH , EVEN COFFE WENDING MACHINE IS NOT
PRESENT
FIRE
ALRAM SYSTEM
NEW
ELECTRONIC CONTROL PANNEL FOR LHB COACHES
THE
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM BETWEEN THE COACHES
CCTC
CAMERA AT DOOR
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