A flight of high priority expresses

[jis]

Watch what happens when a poor lower priority express gets entangled in the middle of a flight of high priority expresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV9CT-X3h-M

This is in India at a station named Ajaibpur between New Delhi and Aligarh on the Delhi - Kolkata trunk route. All these trains originate in Delhi within ten or 15 minutes of each other and basically run on each others markers to Kanpur, with the Rajdhanis overtaking some of the others on the way.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Thanks for sharing! Looks sort of like the NEC with a few Looooooong Trains and a reminder of the Rainbow Trains with the different colors!

Are the suicides heavy, it looks like a prime way for the depressed to end it?

 

[jis]

Thanks for sharing! Looks sort of like the NEC with a few Looooooong Trains and a reminder of the Rainbow Trains with the different colors!

Are the suicides heavy, it looks like a prime way for the depressed to end it?

Egads, this godforesaken user interface really sucks. So let me try to fix the totally munged thing that it left behind....

Pedestrian fatalities are a serious problem. What is surprising is that many more people do not get involved in accidents.

BTW, the difference between NEC and this is that each of those trains are on an intercity route of lengths of 900 miles or more. Most of those trains that overtake the hapless express at this station have their first stop at Kanpur Central which is more than 250 miles from New Delhi where they originated.

Interestingly, the second train in the set of six is slightly lower priority and it will be overtaken by at least the next three trains, the Rajdhanis, which have a higher MAS than the second train.

To alleviate this long delay to lower priority trains when the high priority flight gets going this entire segment between New Delhi and Kanpur Central is being progressively triple tracked, and even quadruple tracked in some segments. In addition the completely new double track Dedicated Freight Corridor paralleling this will off load freight trains from this segment.

To me this is amazing since when I traveled this segment for the first time in the '60s, it was single track. Double tracking and electrification was ten years in the future. There were only four mail/express trains per day!

 

[Bob Dylan]

Thanks jis, if I had the money I would start planning a trip to India like other AUers, just to ride the rails! ( since I've seen the sights as a poor backpacking student)

What an adventure it would be!☺

The main problem is the long flight and the cost, since I'm a poor retired Government employee on a fixed income!

 

[jis]

Yup. Getting to India and back is the expensive part. Once you are in India it can be pretty inexpensive, as you already know from your past experience. That is true even while using relatively premium service on rail (as I illustrated with the Indrail Pass costs), and even in Indian 3+ star hotels. The American chains are still expensive. but I still manage to use them sometimes using my copious stash of hotel points.