The historical Munger, is easily my favourite city in Bihar. It's twin city Jamalpur is major railhead, and an important junction. The Jamalpur Workshop was built by the Britishers, and still exists in the service of the nation today...
Presenting the first connection between Jamalpur and Kanyakumari, the trains passes through Sultanganj, Bihar's third largest city Bhagalpur upcomes next, before venturing into Jharkhand briefly only to go to West Bengal next. At Rampurhat, the train reverses direction to take the RPH-DMKA-JSME line to Jasidih. Baba Baidyanath and Baba Bashukinath temple both fall, in the line's direction. At Jasidih the train reverses direction, goes to Madhupur, Chittaranjan before entering into Dhanbad. Loco change occurs at Dhanbad rather Jasidih because of both practicality and...
more... ease of loco change(Loco Change is difficult and takes a long time at JSME).
From Dhanbad to Bokaro and then back to bengal at Purulia, before venturing into TATA. The train undergoes a reversal at Tata to go via another train scarce route via Chaibasa. Orissa follows next with Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road and Brahmapur follow and exit Orissa and enter Andhra Pradesh. Andhra's largest city Vishakapatnam greets us with a loco change. We then encounter the mighty Godavari between Rajahmundry and Kovvur and enter AP's second largest city and South India's busiest railway station Vijayawada Junction.
Crossing over the Krishna next, we head for Tamil Nadu. Capital of Tamil Nadu and South India's largest city Chennai greeting with open arms at 1:00AM. With a loco change and a reversal we go straight into Tamil Nadu's heart with Villupuram and Tiruchchirappali.
Further heading south we encounter the vibrant city of Madurai, before going to the southern tip of India, Kanyakumari via Nagercoil.
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