16561- 10-April-2014 KJM-KCVL

It was really a bad start to summer, following is the report

16561 arrived in KJM around 4:20 with Wap 22626, only 4 vacant berths in 1A, 13 in 2A...
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and 40 in 3A.. Managed to board all my 6 luggage which include 2 laptops and one bag for each person. Noticed that our berths were filled up 4 luggage, one very big bag and 3 big bags and we hardly had space to push our luggage down, the lady in 35 and 36 as seen in the chart below was refusing to vacate the bags saying train is not your property and on, I complained to TTE he was also helpless. Even the regular attenders in this train also could not do anything as the lady was behaving extremely bad especially with my wife which I was forced record in my cell phone. She was behaving badly with even other passengers especially 2 very old ladies in next bay whom she abused with extremely bad words.

Finally running staff called me to PC and thru I think walky talky they contacted Bangarapet and arranged for police, and the whole issue was solved in about 15 mts Also the train had a halt of more than 20 mts in Bangarapet. Police people surrounded the coach.555 Also TTE and running staff asked me to move to a different place for some time as the lady was using extremely provoking words.

Initially 2 you youths travelling to Sabrimala refused to shift to A2 as they were not comfortable with lady behavior and finally at Bangarapet they agreed only because she was removed to different berths after discussions with TTE, running staff etc. Finally when I was shifted to A3 (31-34) with the help of attenders, also fresh bedding was given to us. Later after 15mts I came back to pick up my younger son's water bottle which we forgot to take from A2, could see 2 TTEs and an attender having heated debate with that lady.

Train was delayed by an hour in Salem, there was a halt of 40 mts in Tiruppatur bypass for 2 trains to pass and 20 mts halt at Samalpatti, till Coimbatore delay was around 40 mts and arrived in KCVL around 6:25 AM. Our coach A3 was Rajdhani liveried 13052, A2 10072 and A1 11055. H1 and PC were regular coaches 10005 and 10804