OFFLINK FOR THE TINY RAKE

Haldia Asansol exp with it's puny rake arrives pf 6 of Asansol with offlink Santragachhi wap 4 in lead. Most of the passengers of Asansol city in this train deboards at Burnpur instead of Asansol as the train is always halted for a long time at Burnpur due to cross overs and pf congestion at Asansol. Only Durgapur, Raniganj, Bardhaman, Andal, Chittaranjan bound passengers travel till Asansol
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LIC EXPRESS aka PATNA JANSHATABDI

20mins behind schedule Howrah - Patna Janshatabdi exp arrives on pf 4 of Asansol with it's regular link red beast of Howrah in lead.
Almost all the coaches of this train have advertisement of LIC on it, hence giving it a unique livery. D3 and CE1 were normal blue liveried coaches. This train is running...
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with DE1 and CE1 for indefinite period of time

Pic 1 - Patna JS arrived on pf 4 with Howrah wap4 in lead
Pic 2 - one of the "LIC" liveried coach of Patna Janshatabdi
Pic 3,4 - D3 of JS with normal blue coloured livery
Pic 5 - DE1 of JS, no TB or coach number was allotted by Patna CDO
Pic 6 - CE1 of JS, again no TB or coach no was present
Pic 7 - Train departed from Asansol bang on 17.00hrs, 18mins behind it's schedule

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LIFELINE OF PATNA ASANSOL MAINLINE

The lifeline of Patna - Asansol mainline, Danapur - Tatanagar exp arrives Asansol, 10mins before it's scheduled arrival with it's new link, white beast of Howrah in lead. The train, being the only dedicated train between Tatanagar and Patna experiences huge rush throughout the year.
While Howrah wap7 got detached from one end, a waggie...
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from Tatanagar ELS got attached on the other end for powering it further till Tatanagar. The train departed at 13.35hrs from Asansol after taking a scheduled 35mins halt at Asansol

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RAILFANNING AT RAMPURHAT

Had a sudden trip to Rampurhat day before yesterday. It was my first trip beyond Sainthia after SNT-RPH section became tripled

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of Rampurhat
Pic 2,3 - Sealdah - Rampurhat Intercity exp taking rest on pf 2 after completing it's journey with Asansol waggie. I travelled in this train from Bolpur to Rampurhat. It had a good run till Sainthia but post Sainthia, it stopped at all stations and took 1hr to cover a distance of kust 29.8km becausevof pf scarcity at Rampurhat
Pic 4 - #TB of Intercity exp
Pic 5,6 - 1hr late running Howrah Jaynagar passenger entering pf 3 with Howrah p4 and dead alco in lead
Pic 7 - #SB of Rampurhat. Recently the suffix "Junction" has been added in it's SB

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SOMEWHAT LIKE MIRROR IMAGE

Jabalpur bound Shaktipunj exp and Azamgarh bound kolkata azamgarh weekly exp looking forward eagerly to get a starter from pf 4 and pf 3 of Asansol respectively behind Red beasts from Howrah ELS

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