Showdown of Night Scorchers.Rampant WAP7 Bangalore Rajdhani Greets Blazing WAP7 UP Sampark Kranti.!!
754 views · Published 31 October 2015 · 2:22 · Indexed 29 October 2026
Channel: anirudh27pdk · 2015 · Autos & Vehicles
Night captures are always scintillating,the way the mean machines make their presence felt in the darkness is surely spell bounding.Add to that the aura they leave behind once they rattle past an isolated station is quite intoxicating.If a single night blast from a premium train can raise a person's adrenaline level to an all time high..then imagine the adrenaline shoot when a person witnesses a crossing that too by the two premium trains just in a span of few seconds. Similar scenes were witnessed on my second outing to Dabra station,after almost missing out a perfect crossing of the two night scorchers ie. the rampant Bangalore Rajdhani and the menacing Uttar Pradesh Sampark Kranti in my last outing.I finally had my "mauka-mauka" moment as the fate yet again brought the two of them together,and this time around i was lucky as both of the night scorchers appeared just in span of few seconds which made way to a perfect crossing. Now coming over to this capture,after enjoying non stop mps action from the Jhansi and Delhi bound trains in a span of over 2 hours,the time finally came for the Legend Killer and also the Night scorcher of the New Delhi-Jhansi route ie. the fierce 22691 Bangalore Rajdhani to unleash it's charisma.Just imagining about the SBC Raj @ 130 km/hr speed gives chills to a person then witnessing the same ruthless action would be simply out of the world.After a patient wait and the moment the clock ticked 1:30 am the starter on the line towards Delhi turned green and it was time for the ultimate legend killer aka Bangalore Rajdhani to lash it's aggression.Now just as i was relishing the moment and was getting the goosebumps on thinking about the type of aggression which the SBC Raj would unleash,the signal this time on the line towards Jhansi turned green and i was all but surprised,confused on which train it would possibly be,i shifted my focus towards the capture of SBC Raj. The train coming from the Delhi end was a surprise and this surprise had a great conclusion afterwards.It was at 1:37 am that i saw a beam of yellow light approaching from the south end of the station,without having any second thoughts i took out my camera and started rolling to record this footage.Making it's way from Jhansi,the fierce night scorcher of the NDLS-JHS Route, the mighty primo supremo as termed by railfans ie. the 22691 Bangalore Rajdhani led by the LGD's white horse WAP-7 announced it's arrival with some hard honking which continued all the way till the station's north end and then blazed past the Dabra station at full notch.The Lp's of the menacing Bangalore Rajdhani left no stone unturned in delivering a perfect mps blast.The station along with the stationary freight looped for Rajdhani itself were left rattled after receiving a brutal pounding at the hands of Bangalore Rajdhani. Now just as the rampant Bangalore rajdhani disappeared into the darkness,in came the surprise...The moment SBC rajdhani cleared the advance starter ,i again saw a beam of bright yellow light appearing this time from the north,knowing the fact that the other train is closer to the station's vicinity i continued to record the footage.While the red beam of the last EOG of SBC Raj camouflaged into darkness,the beam of yellow light approaching from the other end became bigger with every passing second.Just as the loco cleared the home signal,that the Lp's began a full throttle honking.The mid headlamps and honking was enough for us to conclude it was a WAP-7 but of whom it was still a mystery beckoning to be solved.It was only when the raging GZB WAP-7 leading the 23 coacher Uttar Pradesh Sampark Kranti Exp. darted past the Dabra station enroute to Jhansi that the long awaited mystery was finally revealed. Just as the Dabra station was trying to settle itself down after getting hammered by the SBC Raj,the UPSK delivered a sucker punch which left the station in tatters.The back to back blasts first by SBC Raj followed by UPSK surely raised the adrenaline levels to an all time high.Literally the crossings of the two biggies surely set our night Rf on fire and it was just a clear vindication of what was to come later on :D
