Mahamana Express | FULL JOURNEY COMPILATION |

A Full Journey Compilation of #20904 #Mahamana Express - Varanasi to Vadodara.
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Mahamana Express is a "Model Rake" based super-fast train that was named after and in honor to Pt. Shri Madan Mohan Malaviya, a freedom fighter & an educationist who had established the Benaras Hindu University. No surprises that the first ever Mahamana was run between Varanasi and New Delhi (numbered 22417/8) on 22nd January, 2017 by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
Since then, three other Mahamana trains have been introduced.
-- Varanasi - Vadodara Mahamana Express
-- Bhopal - Khajuraho Mahamana Express
-- Indore - Veraval Mahamana Express
This video features the compilation of a full journey on board the second Mahamana service that was inaugurated on 22nd September, 2017 between Varanasi & Vadodara.
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Shot in May 2018, during the peak summer season in Northern & Western India, the video starts with the early morning departure from Varanasi led by a WDM-3D of #Lucknow. We cross the #Malviya Bridge over River Ganga after which a slippery run follows subjected to the infamous "NCR treatment" resulting in a 2 hour delay at #Allahabad Chheoki. From #Chheoki, we take the bifurcation towards #Itarsi and continue our run in the sweltering heat hit by numerous slowdowns and restrictions.
The only thing worth watching remains the patches of dry and arid forests around #Bargarh (after #Shankargarh) and after #Manikpur enroute #Satna. Satna, which serves as the major rail-head for the famous #Khajuraho temple, is a small respite. The run thereafter is mostly characterized by the offshoots of the Vidhya range along the tracks with the light blue sky forming a beautiful contrast. The mercury, however, kept rising and it became almost unbearable at Katni Jn.
The delay kept playing around the 2-hour mark even as we reached #Jabalpur around late afternoon. The sun was gradually setting and soon I had to call it a day for my shooting activities. A few hours of comforting sleep in my AC coach brought me to #Itarsi Jn an hour to midnight. We swapped our diesel locomotive for an electric one, which to my surprise turned out to be a WAP-1 from #Ghaziabad. A pleasant surprise to end Day-1 !!!
Day-2 began rather drab as I woke up around 5:30 am to find ourselves trudging past the barren landscape of north-eastern #Maharashtra. A short single-line section came up which duly ended at #Nandurbar, along the Maharashtra - Gujarat border.
Our first major halt came at Surat around 9:30 am; we were finally on the Mumbai - Vadodara main line. The last part of the journey was quite smooth as we enjoyed a good run over the plains of eastern Gujarat crossing two major rivers (River #Tapti at Surat & River #Narmada at #Bharuch) and ended up at Vadodata Jn at 11:35 am, delayed by the same 2 hours we had incurred in NCR on Day-1.
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Features FOUR rivers :
River Ganga
River Tamas
River Tapti
River Narmada
Features plenty of crossings listed in the order of their appearances :
Ganga Sutlej Express, then newly LHB-fied
Kumbha Express
Gondia Barauni Express
Sealdah Duronto
Poorva Express
Vasco Patna Express
Ajmer Sealdah Express
Toofa Express
Jharkhand Swarna Jayanti Express
Agra Kolkata Express
Mumbai Darbhanga Jan Sadharan Express
Sarnath Express
Imperial Mail, delayed by 15 hours
Mumbai Varanasi Special
Ahmedabad Allahabad Express
Pune Gorakhpur Express
Gondia Barauni Express, again
Shipra Express, with twin Itarsi ALCos
Pune Patna Express
Jabalpur H.Nizamuddin Superfast Express
Mumbai Patna Janata Express
Jabalpur Ambikapur Intercity Express
Jabalpur Rewa Express
Jabalpur Kota Express
Rameshwaram Manduadih Express
Itarsi Allahabad passenger
Surat Bhusawal passenger
Ahmedabad Howrah Express
Udhna Danapur Express
Surat Bhusawal passenger, with a lovely Bhusawal WAM-4
Vadodara Bhilad Express
Mumbai AC Double Decker
Mumbai Ahmedabad Shatabdi Express
Udaipur/Ajmer Bandra Express
Jaipur Bandra Express
Paschim Express
Gujarat Express
Navjeevan Express
Bikaner Secunderabad Express
Saurashtra Express
H.Nizamuddin Pune AC Superfast
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