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The first part of an entire journey in the Ahmedabad Mumbai Central Double Decker Express. This part features the passage of the Double Decker train through Gujarat from Ahmedabad to Surat.
We depart Ahmedabad at 6:28 am, late by a whooping 28 minutes. Being winter and the western part of the country, its still dark as we progress past the Ahmedabad Trip Shed laden with quite a few WAP-5s and WAP-4s from Vadodara.
The first sign of light appears before Nadiad and we cross Anand quite deftly ending up at Vadodara outer at 8:05 am. The Howrah Porbander Express crosses us with a Vadodara WAP-4 and we soon we make a curved entry into Vadodara's pf #1.
Post Vadodara, we step up the accelerator and cross the 110 kmph mark. In the next stretch of the journey towards Bharuch, we encounter a plethora of crossings including Gujarat Queen, Mumbai Ahmedabad Passenger and the Bandra Ramnagar Express among others.
At Bharuch, we overtake the Udaipur Bandra Express and dart towards Surat crossing River Narmada in style. Crossing River Tapi next, we encounter the Mumbai Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express with a Vadodara WAP-5 at Surat outer.
Finally, at 10:14 am, we make an entry into Surat delayed by some 52 minutes.
PLEASE stay tuned for the next part featuring the Double Decker's run from Surat to Mumbai Central.
My coach was C11 and seat was in Upper Deck numbered 101.