40th Anniversary Run of Howrah Rajdhani

40th anniversary run of the 2301 HWH-NDLS Rajdhani. Pictures provided by Samit Roychoudhury.

Date: 2009-03-11
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 18 items
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Rajdhani 40th Anniversary - Its tea time... After the fruit juice, we were served a nice cole slaw sandwich in brown bread, a dhokla, a kachori, a rajbhog, salted cashwenuts, and a small bar of 5 Star chocolate. The special was a box with four laddus. Tea

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Rajdhani 40th Anniversary - Passenger Information System display in all First AC compartments, right next to the sliding door. This LCD panel gave out the next stop, the current speed, nearest station and the amount of delay. 03.03.2009, HWH - NDLS Raj, I

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Rajdhani 40th Anniversary - Dinnertime Folks. We started with nice tomato soup, served with breadsticks and butter. The starters comprised of veg au-gratin, chicken tangri kabab and fish orly. The main course, shown here, was boiled vegetables, 'roast' ch

Comments
A virtual ride in the lap of luxury. Truly a special journey. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Manish on 2009 Mar 14 10:50:21 +0000
Goes on to show how little we have progressed in terms of travel time in 40yrs. :-(
Posted by Aseem Johri on 2009 Mar 12 08:35:32 +0000
Samit, thanks for this lovely treat!
Posted by M S M Saifullah on 2009 Mar 11 23:40:04 +0000