Gujarati Guest To Bengal - VALSAD WAG7 Visits SHM - Kolkata Shalimar & A Big Miss!!

BL WAG7 Arrives At SHM | © Soumo's Railways

It was such a great pleasure for me to welcome a special guest from Western coast. BL-VALSAD WAG7 (no 28615) from Valsad Shed of Gujarat state came in to Shalimar Railway Station to serve the 12885 Shalimar Bhojudih Aranyak Express that runs daily (except Sunday).

It is most likely that the locomotive came in with a freight train towards the Shalimar yard and today it was assigned to the 12885 Aranyak Express and in turn it is to return to its home shed/ zone.

You can watch BL-Valsad WAG7 coming in to Shalimar by clicking on the video link/ thumbnail below:

Big Oppertunity Missed:

Unfortunately I missed another big oppertunity yesterday. 18029 LTT Kurla - Shalimar Express was assigned with Vadodara WAP5 with its Special Amul Livery and it was the second time that in SER Zone the Vadodara WAP5 has came in. This was more special as it came with everybody's favourite "Amul" branded loco. Now this cannot be forgiven when you live just at a walkable distance to Shalimar.

The lovely BRC Amul WAP5 Livery:

Photo By Asseem Jindal on Flickr

The photo of Amul BRC WAP5 on left is by Asseem Jindal and here the photo is linked-shared directly from his Flickr. Check out his great Flickr account here.

However I had the oppertunity to videograph the very first arrival of BRC-Vadodara WAP5 (no. 30088) to Shalimar with 18029 LTT - Shalimar Express back in February this year, after getting a tip from Facebook group and that was a big buzz among local railfans and envy to not local railfans. You can check out the first arrival of BRC WAP5 loco with LTT Shalimar Kurla Express below. Note, the following videos are of February 2017, also one of my firsts at my YouTube Channel:

Here the loco standing at the extreme end of platform at Shalimar Railway Station:

Thanks for stopping by, the next loggings made today will follow in the upcoming blog posts.

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