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[IRI] Captured Amritsar Punjab Mail on 131 Year's Old Malviya(Dufferin) Iron Bridge at Kashi/Varanas

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Channel: Mohd Arif · 2018 · Travel & Events

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LKO shed WDP4D #40302 Loco Pulling On Time 13005 Howrah - Amritsar Punjab Mail ( হাওড়া - অমৃতসর (পাঞ্জাব) মেল  / हावड़ा - अमृतसर (पंजाब) मेल ) Towerd Its Next Halt Kashi Station , we captured this Train on Legendary Malviya (dufferin) Bridge 


Few info about Malviya (dufferin) Bridge :-

    Malviya Bridge, inaugurated in 1887 (originally called The Dufferin Bridge), is a double decker bridge over the Ganges at Varanasi. It carries rail track on lower deck and road on the upper deck. It is one of the major bridges on the Ganges and carries the Grand Trunk Road across the river.
   It has 7 spans of 350 ft and 9 spans of 110 ft and it was the first bridge of its type constructed in the Indian sub-continent by the engineers of Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway(O&R Railway). The engineer in charge of construction of the Dufferin Bridge was Frederick Thomas Granville Walton, who went on to become the Engineer in Chief of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway company. The bridge was renamed as the Malviya Bridge in 1948 after Madan Mohan Malaviya. As the bridge is near Rajghat, it is also locally known as Rajghat bridge. Malviya Bridge is between Kashi, Varanasi and Mughal Sarai stations
    In Rudyard Kipling's story The Bridge Builders, the bridge is given the name Kashi Bridge, after the nearby city also known as Varanasi. Dufferin Bridge's opening ceremony was delayed because of floods; the Kashi bridge in the story also faces similar problems due to flooding just before it was opened to public

Few Info About Amritsar Punjab Mail :-   
   
    Amritsar Mail is a passenger train (train numbers 13005/13006) operated by Indian Railways which connects the eastern Indian city of Kolkata with the northern Indian city of Amritsar. It is more popularly known as Punjab Mail because during the pre-independence period it used to run as the Punjab Mail between Kolkata (then Calcutta) and Lahore (now in Pakistan).

The Amritsar Mail is a normal mail/express class train of Indian Railways travelling at a speed of 56 km/hr. It has Sleeper, Three tier AC, Two tier AC, First class AC types of coaches 3 Unreserved coach one RMS coach and One Military Reserved Compartment. Pantry service is available with this train. It leaves Howrah at 19:10 hrs and takes the Howrah-Delhi main line via Patna to reach Mughalsarai from where it proceeds towards Amritsar. This train is generally hauled by an MGS WAP-4. Once this was the best link from Kolkata to Amritsar but now it is facing tough competition from superfast trains like Akal Takht Express and Durgiana express.

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