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DONT MISS Part 2 (Gaya - Kanpur) here : • Howrah New Delhi Duron...
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The first of the three parts of a compilation of an entire journey from Howrah to New Delhi in the 12273 Howrah-New Delhi Duronto Express.
With Howrah WAP-4 #22409 in the lead, we depart Howrah at 12:47 pm, delayed by 2 minutes. It was kind of Ankit Ray Ghatak, Subhankar Das and Anuvab Bhattacharjee to come to Howrah to see us off.
Watch the Duronto's speedy run through the Howrah Barddhaman Chord line and the quadruple Barddhaman-Asansol section. At Asansol, we meet the Ajmer Sealdah Express while skipping the station. In the ELS, we spot many new locos and again pick up speed defeating the Asansol-Barabhum MEMU in a parallel action.
We regain speed after Asansol crusing past the Chhota Ambona plateau and the fields full of white Kash-Flowers of autumn. At Dhanbad, we meet the stranded Double Decker Express and come to a halt ahead of time.
The run after Dhanbad is characterized by the sal forests of Hazaribagh and the distant hills of the Chhota Nagpur plateau. We skip Hazaribagh Road and Koderma at 120 kmph flat. AND, we enter the ghat section.
Dusk falls as we traverse the ghats and the three tunnels after skipping Gujhandi and Dilwa. At Paharpur, as we have descended the ghats, darkness engulfs us and we encounter a storm. The remaining distance is traversed within a sharp spell of rainfall and some constant 120 kmph action.
At 18:57, we finally enter Gaya in a sharp left hand curve for our second technical halt.
Please don't miss the next parts for some awesome night action of the Duronto featuring some stunning Rajdhani crossings.