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Rare Capture || Route Diverted Darjeeling Mail rescued by LKO WDG4 + SGUJ WDP4D dead EMD | ER | IR

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Channel: Sudipta sarkar · 2018 · Travel & Events

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12344 - Dn. Darjeeling Mail train normally runs between HDB and SDAH via HBC(HOWRAH BARDDHAMAN CHORD STRETCH)...But for maintenance purpose it is trains are diverted via MAIN LINE...That's why we are getting chord line trains on Main line..

With the diverted route we have another surprise...SGUJ WDP4D loco failed during the journey nd LKO WDG4 was there to rescue..This is a rare view to watch LKO WDG-4 with Darjeeling Mail...

I have spotted DARJEELING MAIL today at KHARDAHA station...


The Darjeeling Mail is one of the legendary trains in the eastern region of India that has been running from pre-independence days and is still in operation. It connects to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway at New Jalpaiguri in Siliguri. This is a major train for Kolkata-Siliguri route and Haldibari slip route.

During the British period all connections to North Bengal were through East Bengal.

From 1878, the railway route from Kolkata, then called Calcutta, to Siliguri was in two laps. The first lap was a 185 km journey along the Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the southern bank of the Padma River. The passengers would then avail a ferry across the river. The second lap of the journey was a 336 km metre gauge line of the North Bengal Railway that linked Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri.

Later the 1.8 km long Hardinge Bridge across the Padma came up in 1912. In 1926 the metre-gauge section north of the bridge was converted to broad gauge, and so the entire Calcutta - Siliguri route became broad-gauge. The route thus roughly ran: Sealdah-Ranaghat-Bheramara-Hardinge Bridge-Iswardi-Santahar-Hili-Parabtipur-Nilphamari-Haldibari-Jalpaiguri-Siliguri.

The Darjeeling Mail ran on this route in pre-partition days. Even after the partition of India it ran on this route for some years..


12344 -  Darjeeling Mail ---- DIVERTED Via MAIN LINE
LOCO:- LKO WDG-4  @12294 (IN CHARGE ) + SGUJ WDP-4D  @40359(DEAD)



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