Late Guy Secunderabad Shalimar Express Finally Reaches Its Destination

SC - SHM Exp coming in | © Soumo's Railways

Today's railfanning session at SHM & PDPK was a dumb one. All the SRC P4s graced the morning trains and I was not much interested to capture them. These SRC P4s are pretty common at my part and I find them not always interesting to capture. Secondly it was cloudy and humid, and was thus uncomfortable.

I was looking for the 22850 Secunderabad Shalimar SF express which was scheduled to reach Shalimar by 09:05 hrs (Saturday arrival only).

Though NTES was showing the train late by 1+ hours, it predicted somewhat right time of arrival at Shalimar. I guess it was expecting to make up the delay at the 'Kharagpur Santragachi section'. However it was about 45 minutes late when it came in around 0945 AM. I felt like it was not at all in a hurry and was crawling smoothly. The train was being hauled by a SRC-Santragachi WAP4 locomotive no. 22645 (yes, this too was a SRC WAP4). The video was shot at PDPK-Padmapukur Railway station, and details of the same can be found at the RF data log below.

Have a great day everyone and I wish you a very happy weekend.

Watch video of the train coming in, here:

Coaches of the train | © Soumo's Railways

Here is the RF Data: Date: April 07, 2018 Place: PDPK - Padmapukur Railway Station, Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway Loco: SRC WAP4 (no. 22645)
Loco Shed: SRC - Santragachi
Loco Zone: SER - South Eastern Railway
Train: 22850 Secunderabad Shalimar Weekly SF Express.
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[2-in-1] Powerful WAG9 Loco Compilation - Green Hulks From Bhilai And Gomoh

Gomoh WAG9-H on KHAI bridge | © Soumo's Railways

Happy April and happy Easter everyone. Hope you all are doing well and enjoying the long holiday weekend.

In this first post of April, find a mega compilation (see the video link below, or here) of two freight trains hauled by India's most powerful locomotive till date, the "WAG9" from loco sheds of Bhilai (BIA, loco no. 31039) and Gomoh (GMO, "WAG9-H" variant - loco no. 31323) respectively.

Recently I had a nice time watching trains at the KHAI or Khirai railway station of South Eastern Railway zone. It is a small beautiful station surrounded by beautiful flower plantation fields. Khirai is a very popular railway station for railfanning among local railfans of "South (West-) Bengal", but I find it somewhat inconvenient as only one line(-s) can be observed at a certain point; nevertheless the station is a great location to observe trains.

Watch the compilation of the WAG9 locos here:

Bhilai WAG9 coming in | © Soumo's Railways

Having crossed 10k subscribers on YouTube recently, I had the oppertunity to unlock the "Community" area of my YouTube channel.

While I was experimenting there for last two days and made some initial basic posts, I felt that segment a very useful space which can be used to interact with all of you.

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Gomoh WAG9-H | © Soumo's Railways

I think from now you can occasionally get a glimpse of those non-YouTube updates that I usually share on my Facebook page, Instagram, Twitter or in this blog, there on the 'Community' area of my YouTube channel.

Here is the RF Data: Date: March 25, 2018 Place: KHAI - Khirai Railway Station, Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway (a)
Loco: BIA WAG9 (no. 31039)
Loco Shed: BIA Bhilai
Loco Zone: SECR - South East Central Railway

Gomoh WAG9-H | © Soumo's Railways

(b)
Loco: GMO WAG9-H (no. 31323)
Loco Shed: GMO NSCB Gomoh
Loco Zone: ECR - East Central Railway

Thanks for stopping by. As always, corrections, comments, suggestions new ideas, travel tips (or anything) are very much welcome and appreciated.

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