#Panvel - #Chiplun
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After having a lot of Railfanning at Panvel, We departed almost 20 min late. Slowly and steadily we changed the track and came on main line. Dhannu picked up speed and blasted through Somatne and Rasayani. Rain started near Rasayani. A pleasant feeling in my mind when rain started, but same time i missed out the video of Coimbatore - Bikaner AC Superfast which blast past us in almost 7sec!!!!. Ran at MPS and came and stopped at unschedule halt at Apta(Film station). No crossing nor overtaking...
more... tooked place. Waited at Apta for almost 10 min which delay us by 25min. Here i got introduce with people sitting beside us(Seat #1,2,4,7 and 8). A small girl of std 4th entertained us a lot in trip. Mens sitting on seat #7 and 8 was having hobby as their Photography. They taught me about RFing. From apta stn we all 3 were together standing on Door and sometimes on window. After a long halt we finally departed. Now it was a single line with lots of curve and rivers on the way. We again came and made to wait at a small station called Jite. Here we had waited for a crossing. Almost after 5 min, an honking was able to hear. EMD WDP4d #40115 of Golden Rock shed with attached Netravati Express crossed us with its musical honking(Video out on YT). Slowly and slowly reached Pen and stopped on Main line just for few seconds and again started. WDG 4 #12041 of Unknown shed with long goods rake was at Pen. "Hilte dulte Latakke" we arrived Nagothane for a crossing. a WDP 4 #12068 unknown shed was parked on the pit line alone. Waited at Nagothane for 10min. WDG 3a hauled with Roha - Diva Passenger arrived PF #1. Slowly train tooked speed and arrived Roha(Last Railway station on Central Railway) PF#2 after lots of curves and bridges. Hauled only for 2 min and quickly departed and again stopped at Kolad(First railway station on Konkan Railway). Waited and waited and finally 50105 Madgaon - Sawantwadi - Diva Passenger with WDM 3a of Kalyan shed arrived Kolad PF#1. Departed and arrived Mangaon on PF #2 Where we crossed Ratnagiri - Mumbai LTT Ganpati Special (UnReserved)/01038 which was standing on PF#1. Quickly departed and arrived PF# 1 of Veer. Here train of WR was waiting on other loop line. It departed but we were still made to wait. Waited and Waited and finally, 10104 Konkan cha raja Mandovi Express with WDP 4 KJM shed came and halt on main line. We finally departed and waited inside a curve tunnel. We again dep and again stopped in tunnel. 2-3 Great pics inside the tunnel. Now tooked speed and was finally passed out of tunnel and crossed WDG 4 #12606 of Golden Rock shed with Oil tankers was waited at Vinhere. Now it was the time for sunset. Arrived Khed on PF#1 while Kochuveli Bikaner Exp was waited for us on PF#2. Sunsetted in the Sahyadri Mountains. We were made to wait at Anjani for crossing of 2 trains and 3 locos. As just we enter Anjani, Quickly 12052 up Madgaon - Mumbai Jan Shatabdi Exp crossed us with WDM 3d Kalyan shed. But we were still made to wait at stn. It was full dark now. It was the clash of the twins of Central Railway. Pernem - Mumbai LTT Ganpati Special/01040 with Kalyan WDM 3d and 3a passed at High speed. After the crossing of the trains we departed and arrived Chiplun.
High Speed recorded :- 108 km/hr