07/10/2016- I boarded the "Lucknow Rajdhani" 12430 from New Delhi for Lucknow.
It departed from #pf 14 at 23:27 just 6 minutes after the departure of the most punctual train ever-*12562 _swatantrata senani *-
I thought it will disturb the run of my train but it did not.
Now..I knew about the Aljn problem and diversions but could remember only three diverted...
more... trains at the time
1.12554
2.12556
3.12226
They all were way ahead of my train to cause any problems to the run yet I kept tracking them-just in case .
My train enjoyed good priority and arrived gzb at 00:00.In 33 minutes it dod the ndls gzb section.
After its departure it took 15 minutes to cross mehrauli but by then we were cruising.In respect to gzb...
Hapur in 36 minutes
Garmukhteswar in an hour
Amroha hour and a half
But due to congestion arrived Moradabad at 02:53 and departed at 03:03
OVERTAKES TILL NOW..(only those I can remember)
15012 @ gajraula
12556@ kafurpur
12554@amroha
another diesel alco hauled train at gajraula .
In respect to Moradabad
Rampur in 30 minutes
Nagaria sadat in 50 minutes
Arrived Bareilly at 04:27 departed at 04:30
Shahjahanpur at 05:30
Roza at 05:42
After that it stopped at almost all stations due to very high congestion ahead
12230 was late 12238 was running behind it and our train just behind them
Ahead of mail were 19269,14208,13020...
We followed the sequence till sandila where our train was stopped for about 15 minutes and a passenger train which we had overtaken near hardoi caught up with us.
But saving the humiliation
Our train just departed as the train was entering and we had a very small parallel run
Then the real magic starts
NTES baba showed 12238 arrived at dilawarnagar so I thought there will be more congestion ahead and we will have to stop there but nooo...
Our train overtook 12238 at Mps
Then overtook 19269 at malihabad through loop
And ran non stop till lucknow
BTW this train only gets late when mail baba gets late
Overtakes after Moradabad that I remember
13010 at nagaria sadat
Some passenger near hardoi
12238 at dilawarnagar
19269 at malihabad
All in all a good and enjoyable journey