Overconfident People and the Bengaluru Rajdhani Express
A common sight at Malleshwaram, as people carelessly go about their business, which includes defecating by the trackside, with no regard whatsoever for the WDP4-led Rajdhani Express as it comes honking intermittently to ward them off.
The train was running bang on time, as it made its way through the last station on its route – Malleshwaram – at 0634hrs., with a scheduled arrival at Bangalore City Junction slated for 0640hrs. Loco on duty that day was Krishnarajapuram’s WDP4 20060.
Location : Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. Train: 22694 New Delhi – KSR Bengaluru Rajdhani Express.
Video – Dheeraj Rao.
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The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane. The idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.
The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm “amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns.” The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the subcontinent.
In south the first line was opened on Ist July, 1856 by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Vyasarpadi Jeeva Nilayam (Veyasarpandy) and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles. In the North a length of 119 miles of line was laid from Allahabad to Kanpur on 3rd March 1859. The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic on 19th October, 1875.
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