Mumbai Suburban Trip in One Day Part :- 1

Mumbai Suburban Trip in One Day 

Part :- 1 

Goregaon to Dahanu Road ( Western Railway )

Train :- 1-90001 Andheri - Borivali slow

Rake :- 3038-3039

From  :- GMN to BVI.

Train :- 2-92001 Borivali-Virar Slow.

Rake :- 2073-2075-1083-2076-2074.

From :- BVI to VR.

Train :- 3 - 93003 Virar-Dahanu Road Slow.

Rake - 5109-5111-5112-5110.

From :-VR to DRD. 

12th December 2018 date when the discussion about the whole Mumbai Emu section within just one started, the target seems to be tough and mostly like unachievable, but when you have a determination, any task you take is achievable, I told about this plan to Himanshu, nearly after 2 days he replied “let’s do it “. After that the planning starts, nearly it took 3 days to make plan fit with few having cut to cut timing, still we took the risk of taking those service, Himanshu told me to ask others also who can join or who are interested in it, so I asked few people, in start I got only one reply that’s “no “and then one message “are you crazy doing this in just one isn’t possible drop your plan “. But then one message pop up on whatsapp “this looks interesting ill join “ and that was Parth , Even Sahil told he will also join. And lastly it was Rajesh.  After waiting for more than 1 week as exams were on of Himanshu & Rajesh, even I & Sahil were having office work, And Parth stuck with his event work. 

Between those weeks an advertisement by western railway had come in newspaper, which was about the tourist ticket and its uses. 

A part of the leaflet which indicates the price of the tourist ticket and days of validity (can be book 1 day prior of the journey)

Himanshu told let’s take the fc ticket (first class) which was about ₹ 275/- bcoz It would be easy for everyone to travel in comfort and also help to note down all the stuff . As FC during afternoon and on public holidays are empty most time. As decide we all took our FC tourist ticket one day before the travel starts , but I wasn’t able to take the ticket that due to some work issue .

Tourist ticket booked one day prior the trip   ( Ticket pic of sahil )

The day of journey 25th December 2018 (Tuesday) 

As plan by all a day before, we all woke up at 3:20 am sharp and I had to wake up early as I had to start first starting from Goregaon Had to board the first service in down direction which is 90001 ADH – Bvi slow local. I reached station by 4:00 took my tourist ticket and was at pf:-3 by 4:10, still 8 mins left so I called Parth and asked where he reached as he was going to joined me  from malad , and even he had reached the station by 4:12 . 

  

My 3038 retro was the first train of the day; I boarded 3040A first fc towards bvi end, 

Started journey at 4:18, after departing from Goregaon called Parth just to inform him about the departure. Reached malad at 4:20 am, there were 5 people including Parth who boarded the fc coach, and departed malad at 4:22, reached kandivali at 4:25 and departed at 4:26 , after departing from kile we were made to halt at poisar bridge as Churchgate local from pf:-1 had given the way , after which there was a long tsr ( temporary speed restriction ) between pf:-1/2 of bvi which made it crawl at speed of 20 km/hr.  we reached Borivali at 4:30, we changed our platform from pf:-3 to pf:- 6 where already our next service was standing  92001 Borivali – virar 15c  Borivali-Virar Slow  Rake:-2073-2075-1083-2076-2074.From Borivali ( bvi ) to virar ( vr ) , we boarded 2076A 4th coach from VR side , Himanshu was going to join us from Dahisar (dic ) ,  while departing from Borivali at 4:42 , BHUJ – BDTS AC EXPRESS  was entering bvi pf:-9 hauled by brc wap5 and last coach of it was in utkrisht  livery coach  , reached Dahisar at 4:45 , departed from dic at 4:46.  Reached mira road by 4:51, there were many who boarded the train from mira road towards for virar, departed mira road at 4:52 and reached bhayander by 4:55 , Sahil joined us from bhayander  for the further journey of the day. Brc wap4 with golden temple crossed us at bhayander bridge ,  and on north basin brc wap5 with Avantika express back to back , due to cold winds standing on door wasn’t possible so couldn’t note down the locomotive Mumbai,  reached vasai road at 5:05 , Wag7 27951 was standing at pf :-7 , and Rjt – Mmct  duronto with offlink  Tkd wap7 crossed , departed vasai road at 5:06  , Brc wap7 with gujurat mail  last eog was on crossed us at nallasopara . Reached virar pf:-4 by 5:17am, and our drd bound local still haven’t been shunted on pf:-6 from drd end virar north yard.  

 

FC coach  of 2076A

Changed platform from pf:-3 to pf:-5 , where our drd bound local was about to come , Rake no 5109-5110 was in for service as vr – drd local , service number 93003 , Train was shunted on pf at 5:20 boarded coach number  5111A , Avadh express was with BRC wap4 22335, behind it Brc wap5 30116 with saurashtra mail crossed.  And behind it were wag5 twins with car carrier. Departed virar at 5:36 am, there was a long tsr between vr – vtn yard had to crawl for a long time, reached vaitarna at 5:50 am, the local was doing 82-90 km/hr. max between vr-vtn-sah, reached Sah at 5:56 am, drd – pnvl memu crossed followed by brc wap5 with JP – MMCT ganguar sf express, after departing from sah at 5:57, brc Ndls  – Mmct ac spl crossed , followed by 27101 with concour rake . Reached palghar at 6:09, the whole FC of vr-drd was empty it was just 4 of us in entire fc coach. The 20c memu crossed us at palghar outer it was going towards bvi.  Reached uoi  at 6:16 , departed at 6:17  the uoi station was a silent one , no one got on board or got off from the local , boisar at 6:26 am , around 4 people boarded the fc from boisar in entire stretch , wap5 with12215  Dee – bdts gr  crossed us at boisar outer , brc wap7 30474 with 12952 late running more than 45 mins crossed us at vangaon outer , reached drd at 6:53 am. Brc wap7 30526 with late running 19708 Jp – bdts amrapur aravali express halted at drd. And 5197-98 Drd – vr was standing on next platform .