The Train Journey....

Generally BITSIANs frm Goa travel by Goa Express..bt the reason that I and Vishal were travelling by Kerela Sampark Kranti Express was because i had to leave for Leh the following day and wouldn't have been able to reach on time by Goa Express...

11 pm
anyways I had Vishal reached the Madgaon stn uneventfully..Everything and everyone on the station was as usual asleep(including the guy at the enquiry counter..). We reached the stn at abt 11 pm n the train wasnt due till 2 in the nite..so we had to find ways of passing our time..

00:00 am
At abt 12 the first sign of activity on the station arrived...it was Matsyagandha Express...the crowd finally woke up and started moving about...The next was Netravati Express at abt 1 pm....

1:50 am
Our train was supposed to come at 2 pm..n abt 1:50 pm..we bid adieu to Bharat and Soju baba( Soju baba..spent the time on the stn sleeping...) who had a train at 3...n moved to the other side of the station...where our bogie was supposed to be coming...

2:15 am
We could see the faraway headlight of an engine and thought it would be our train..bt when it arrived on the station..it turned out to be just a engine which stopped in front of the control room...n a guy came out with his suitcase n boarded the engine and it went on its way....boy were we livid...and just to add.. Vishal hadnt slept more than 4 hrs in the past two days cause of consecutive exams...n i too hadnt had too much sleep...

2:40 am
Another set of healights in the distance..this time we thought it would definately be our train..bt it happened again..an engine came, stopped,the co-driver came down..bought tea for himself n the driver n it went away again....

2:45 am
Vishal was literally getting pissed off..n went to the enquiry to ask when the train
would be coming..bt the guy was sleeping...Finally the guy woke up n told us that he couldnt contact the driver of our train.... only possible in INDIAN RAILWAY...

3:00 am
The train finally arrived n we got in...We had 2 lower berths n cause Vishal had his guitar wid him..he wanted to sleep on the upper berth...the other four berths( n another in front...) belonged to a Goan family..who for that matter looked as if they were travelling for the first time by train.. First they couldnt find their seats..even though they would find 5 empty seats
anywhere on the train...then they managed to find them...Then they told us that these are our seats...Vishal who was looking forward to a good nite sleep had to literally point to each seat n count...one..two..three...four ..five... Then he told them that he wanted to exchange one berth cause he wanted to sleep on the top berth....n he just climbed up n went off to sleep....i too lay down on my seat n switched off the light....n after that i could see the family count the no. of seats to see whether they totalled up to 5 or had we tricked them...and so finally at abt 3:30 we went off to sleep.....

The rest of the journey was okay..n finally in the evening..the guy asked us where we were headed..n when we told him Delhi...he asked in surprise whether the train goes to Delhi...n he was going beyond Delhi...

Rest of the journey was okay...reached Delhi on 14th morning....n left for Leh on15th morning..I'll write abt that later..after i get the pics..which i dont have at faridabad....where i am doing my ps...