continuity of part :-1 blog post /blog/post/4164073
Mumbai Suburban Trip in One Day Part: - 2
Dahanu Road to Diva via vasai change over boisar (Western Railway & central Railway)
Train:-3 - 93004 Dahanu Road - Virar Slow.
Rake:-5197-5199-5200-5198....
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From:-DRD to BOR.
Train: - 4 - 61001+61003 Boisar - Vasai Road - Diva.
Rake:-188061. (Memu)
From:-BOR to KOPR.
After Reaching Drd we changed the rake from 5109 to 5197, boarded coach number 5197A for boisar, light Lgd wag9 31135 had entered pf:-3, and was going towards virar end, BL wag5p with valsad – Mmct passenger entered drd behind 19708, and behind it 31135 was given starter, followed by our local, our local departed from Dahanu at 7:07, Gmo Wag9Hi 31713 with concor rake was in drd loop line,
further there was a long tsr on up line towards Mumbai , nearly crawled for 10 mins & even the light wag9 was just a block away , so even that added to the delay, the work for new bridge & even the land levelling have started , 17018 secundarabad - rajkot with gtl wdm 3 a twins 11257 was in lead.
Reached vangaon at by 7:20, there were many college student who boarded the fc coach from vangaon, nearly half of the coach was full, reached boisar at 7:29, brc wap5 30055 was with gujurat sf express which was departing from boisar, Lgd wag9 31135 was standing at boisar pf:-1 going towards freight
Siding
Behind it the drd bound local was arriving at boisar service number - 93007, rake 5158-57 was working. After that we went to the freight loading point to capture the 12009, , meanwhile late running 14707 Bkn – Bdts ranakpur express crossed by at double yellow just behind the freight which we saw in drd siding, within few min 12009 Mmct – Adi Shatabdi express with Brc wap7 hog 30574
after taking video of the train we went towards to station master cabin to enquiry about the fc coach, on which side would the fc coach be there, after enquiring we went to a shop to buy tea & vada pav as we had started our journey early had now we felt hungry , while we were having breakfast ( short of ) , brc wap7 30473 was with ST – Mmct flying rannee express, 61002 diva – boisar memu arrived boisar at 7:58 , After clicking picture we went inside the drd side last fc which is just near the cab, we kept our bags and set down on the seat , whole fc was empty , 188061 was the rake number of the memu base was kalwa car shed Offlink Gzb wap1 22033 with Surat bound intercity express, After intercity departed the 20c memu Borivali – Surat memu arrived at boisar 40021 rake was doing the service.
Departed boisar at 8:35am , reached uoi at 8:41 & departed at 8:42, memu Fc ride was much comfortable then the emu ride , reached palghar at 8:50, more than half fc was full from palghar at itself , departed at 8:52, Gzb wap5 30135 with 19023 fzr janta crossed between palghar – kelve road , reached virar at 9:36 , and half fc got empty , 5226 was waiting for starter it was working as vr-ccg ladies spl, Bl wag5p with saurashtra express crossed between nallasopara – vasai , 6010 was working as virar f which just departed from vasai road , entered bsr pf :-7, while Bl wag5 twins and in lead was 23198 with BCNA was waiting for starter, the fc coach was almost full , even there were people near door and they were sitting near door. Departed from bsr 9:55, 5 mins late after crew change from western railway crew to central railway crew, and entered central railway memu picked up speed up to 75 – 80 km/hrs max on entire route, reached Juchandra by 10:00.
It was a lone station with no one on at station, same was the Kaman Road reached there by 10:06, between Kaman road & Kharbav there are many curves and bridge’s , although the location between these station are best for rail fanning.
69165 Panvel - Vasai Road MEMU crossed us after Kharbav, there almost a horseshoe type curve after Kharbav towards BRID. we reached BIRD at 10:25 we were loop at pf:-1 as there was car van at pf:-2 loop & kjm 12030+12148 with frieght at bhiwandi.
Reached upper kopar at 10:35, after we took the pic of the memu we went to the other side and went towards the diva end to go towards lower kopar, TTE were checking ticket at the diva end. There were huge crowd and a long wait to get down to lower kopar, after we reached the lower kopar, I called up Rajesh who was going to be the part of the journey from now onwards he had boarded the train for karjat from thane and we were waiting for the train at lower kopar, Rajesh told the train had left from kalwa. Ajni wap7 30465 with Sewagram crossed kopar around 30-40 km/hrs speed even it had clearance and there wasn’t any tsr. 1018 Siemens local working as kasara fast crossed kopar, src p7 with Howrah duronto was coming but Our karjat bound local announcement at kopar at started , 5334-5333 was our karjat local ,
Karjat trip in next part: - 3
