Falaknuma Express Takes A Sharp Curve And Rushes At A Very High Speed!

Falaknuma curving in | © Soumo's Railways

12703 Howrah to Secunderabad "Falaknuma Superfast Express" takes a sharp curve outside NPMR - Narayan Pakuria Murail railway station and rushes at a very high speed on the busy 'Howrah - Kharagpur line'. This super long train was being served by a SRC - Santragachi WAP4 (no. 22894).

Falaknuma Express is a famous train which connects Eastern city of Kolkata (by Howrah Station) in West Bengal with Hyderabad (Secunderabad) in Telengana.

I wish to quote the following from it's Wikipedia page - "It runs daily and connects important stations such as Bhubaneswar, Brahmapur, Vishakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Guntur. It is a fast alternative to other trains such as East Coast Express and Visakha Express. Compared to the other trains on the Sec'bad to Howrah/Bhubaneswar, it covers lesser distance as it runs via the Nalgonda, Guntur route.

Falaknuma being hauled by a SRC WAP4 | © Soumo's Railways

It is the fastest superfast between Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad other than Duronto & Garibrath. Most of the people going to Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa prefer this train as the train arrives early in the morning. The train runs jam-packed throughout the year.

Besides being superfast this is the only train which is most neat and clean after trains like Shatabdi Express, Rajdhani Express, Duranto Express and other superfast trains in India.

The train is named after The Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, India. Falaknuma is Persian—فلک ا نمایش name meaning to Reflections of Skies/Heavens It covers a distance of 1545 kilometers in about 26 hrs, with 21 halts in between."

Watch the video of Falaknuma passing at high speed:

SRC Red in charge | © Soumo's Railways

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

Date: December 26, 2017

Place: Outskirts of NPMR Railway station (Near PKU-Panskura Jn).

Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway

Loco: SRC WAP4 (no. 22894)

Loco Shed: SRC - Santragachi

Loco Zone: SER - South Eastern Railway
Train: 12703 Falaknuma Express

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