Ashwin

 This journey occured on third week of july 2022.  I  boarded the 22628 Thiruvananthapuram- Tiruchirapali intercity for this journey. Which was lead by a wap4 from arrakonam shed. The journey was done in unreserved coach. At 11:30am the train departed from Thiruvananthapuram central railway station. The route between Thiruvananthapuram and nagercoil is a single track section which meant we had a crossing with Bangalore bound island express lead by an krishnarajapuram wap7 37526. We then reached the ever beautiful nagercoil town railway station at 12:50pm. Since this train doesn't goes to nagercoil junction we had a great view of Nagercoil. At around 1:25 pm we reached valiyur railway station the train was before time here so we were halted for 5 min. I used this time to take photographs of our locomotive and valiyur railway station. At around 2:00 pm we where halted at Tirunelveli outer where the palakad-tiruchendur express crossed us lead by a golden rock wdg3a At around...

 It was a November month in 2021. The monsoon rains have hit Chennai in a horrible way with many roads and houses submerged in rain water. One would say that stay at your house during this situation but for me I can't do at that situation.  This blog shows about my journey in 12695 Chennai Central- Thiruvananthapuram express during a floody day in Chennai It all occurred in 7th November 2021 when I had to return to Thiruvananthapuram from Chennai. The rains on previous few days had made sure that roads and railway track where flooded. I had my train from Chennai Central. I was staying in vadapalani. So to reach station auto drivers and cab drivers where afraid to drive because of the condition of the road. So we choosed metro to reach Chennai Central railway station. Which was a good decision. It costed 50rs to get from vadapalanji to Chennai Central. We reached Central Railway station at 2:30 pm our train was scheduled to leave at 3:20 . But for our horror the Buckingham cana...

 This trip was done on 26 December 2021  As i got the news of crs inspection from Ratnagiri-madagoan would be done at February 2022. I wasted no time and took this as now or never to explore konkan railway in diesel avatar It all started on 26 December 2021 my train to konkan was from Ernakulam junction. So i started my journey to Ernakulam from Thiruvananthapuram in the 12624 Trivandrum-chennai mail it was lead by Royapuram wap7 30331. I reached Ernakulam Town Railway station. Where i met Railfan Pranav T. S who then took me to Ernakulam junction railway station. From Ernakulam junction k vijay anand joined who came from nilambur and we boarded the 12224 Ernakulam-Lokmanya tilak terminus duronto express till Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. The duronto was lead by a kalyan wdp4d 40312. We took the sleeper class in the duronto express. This was my first experience in duronto express train. We departed Ernakulam junction railway station at 9:30 pm for our journey towards konkan railway...

Vande bharat or indias first Highspeed trainset which was made in icf coach factory chennai This blog says about my travel experience in indias 16th vande bharat express ie the Thiruvananthapuram-kasargod vande bharat express The journey occurred on April 25th. Which was the date for the inaugural run of the first vandebharat express in kerala ie the Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargod vande bharat express. Which was set to be inagurated by the honorable prime minister of India shri Narendra Modi, The cheif minister of kerala Shri Pinnarayi Vijayan and the railway minister of India Shri Ashwini Vaishnav. I reached Thiruvananthapuram Railway station at 6:00 am in the morning Along with the passes for the . I met many railfans from kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka who also came for doing the journey in the vandebharat express. At 7: 30 am Childrens from various schools of Thiruvananthapuram arrived railway Station for traveling in the vandebharat train from Thiruvananthapuram-Kollam. The security ch...