Found A BEML EMU For My Trip From SRC To SHM Section Today

MEC-SHM Local - BEML EMU came in to SRC PF-1 | © Soumo's Railways

Earlier today (December 6th) I went to Santragachi area for some personal work. Touched the SRC-Santragachi junction and thought of returning home to Shalimar from SRC-Santragachi by train instead of a bus. This is what a railfan always does - train travel preferred more than other mode of transport whenever it is available/ possible!

The lady on duty at the SRC ticket booking office next to the PF-5 early that morning was, I believe overworked, frustrated and was behaving crazy. She was arguing with all passengers, over lack of change with her. Though my (and other passengers') experience with her was absolutely not a good one (and that definitely was not a good face-keeper for South Eastern Railway), I think I should forget that.

Approaching PDPK, at the outskirts of SHM | © Soumo's Railways

Well I was rewarded for choosing the train journey. The down Mecheda Shalimar local for which I was waiting for appeared a few minutes late, but was a BEML EMU. BEML stands for 'Bharat Earth Movers Ltd' which made these stainless steel EMU trains which are much comfortable and way better than old existing EMU trains. Such a BEML EMU is uncommon for the Shalimar - Santragachi section.

My YouTube follower Mr. Rabin Saha comments: "BEML EMU is better than ICF, Jessop, Texmaco and Siemens .It is regular in our Sealdah-Budge budge section and I have boarded it several times. It is very comfortable to ride and it has good acceleration. A lot of thanks to you for this." Mr Saha is a great supporter of "Soumo's Railways" blog, and he often leaves important piece of information in the comments.

The same BEML EMU Leaving SHM | © Soumo's Railways

The concerned train - "38310 Mecheda (MCA) to Shalimar (SHM) Local" leaves Mecheda at 0703 hrs, arrives SRC at 0813 hrs and SHM at around 0830 hrs touching PDPK in between around hrs.0821. Read more about the train here and here. From Shalimar this train returns as 38031 Shalimar (SHM) to Santragachi (SRC) Local. It starts from SHM on 0845 hrs, touches PDPK on 0849 hrs and finally arrives SRC at around 0900 hrs. Read about the train here and here.

Watch the EMU observed both at SRC and SHM here on the link below:

Here is the RF Data (for the current observation):

Date: December 06, 2017

Place: 

SRC-Santragachi Junction and

SHM - Shalimar Railway Station.

Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway

Train:

From SRC - 38310 Mecheda (MCA) to Shalimar (SHM) Local;

From SHM - 38031 Shalimar (SHM) to Santragachi (SRC) Local.

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