16 year old dream comes true on Central Railway...
5th and 6th Lines between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and Thane opened for Passenger Traffic today on 10th April 2011...
First Train on 6th Line towards LTT is 3201 UP Rajendra Nagar Patna - LTT Mumbai Express with Kalyan WCAM3 # 21961 and running Parallel to it on the 4th Main Line is 2142 UP Rajendra Nagar - Mumbai CST Express with Kalyan WCAM3 # 21962 (Tushar Dhake)

Date: 2011-04-10
Owner: Tushar Dhake
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Mani - just day before yesterday, while returning from office at night from Kanjurmarg towards Thane, I happened to see a WCAM3 hauled train to LTT, at Bhandup, immediately, being overtaken by Udyan hauled by WDP4. It was a beautiful race between an...
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2011 Apr 22 05:46:55 +0100
Mani you should visit this place and I hope you should be lucky to get parallel action at same time. Chaitanya, come on 01JUN i.e. Deccan Queen birthday and capture the birthday girl at this point. If you want company, there is Deep Soni.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2011 Apr 21 17:36:14 +0100
Have to see this live to believe that my 25-yr old dream of seeing AC-type masts in and around Ghatkopar-Kurla has finally come true! So, can we expect to have parallel action between long-distance trains in the Thane-LTT section?
Posted by Mani Vijay on 2011 Apr 21 17:31:15 +0100
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Good Capture ! Wish I would've been there to witness all this. One more thing I pointed out that rake of 2142 cant be so short ;-) Anyways a good attempt to stich the pictures. Perfect stiching of pictures having electric poles and wires is always...
Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2011 Apr 20 10:58:23 +0100
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Karan - 1stly, Thanks for your compliments. Secondly, I am not charged up, still on 1500V DC only ;-). Thirdly and honestly speaking, what you now have said is same as what you earlier tried to say. But this time, its really gentle and subtle. This is...
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2011 Apr 20 06:08:10 +0100
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Vijay, relax. No need to get so charged up. This photo is incorrectly stitched as is evident at the center and you like it or hate it, that's a fact. If both trains were indeed running exactly parallel as this photo makes out to be, the stitching would ...
Posted by Karan Desai on 2011 Apr 20 05:42:14 +0100
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Karan - I would like you to think twice before throwing words out. Time and again this has been observed in you.

First of all, Nobody here is interested in providing a fake picture representing any sort of "dramatic action" to anyone here ...
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2011 Apr 20 05:30:44 +0100
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This image is not "fake" but photoshopped to give a false impression of dramatic "parallel action". Look at catenary poles and OHE wires around the center of the image, they disappear into thin air! If you are stitching two or more images into one...
Posted by Karan Desai on 2011 Apr 20 00:34:50 +0100
This is absolutely not a fake picture nor misleading. Thank you!
Posted by Deep Soni on 2011 Apr 19 21:09:08 +0100
Perhaps not fake..but certainly misleading.
Posted by Akshay Marathe on 2011 Apr 19 13:14:04 +0100
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Dear Harsh,
The Image is not a fake, actually both the trains came in together at Vidyavihar on 4th and 6th lines and there were many more who have seen this event personally apart from railfans who were present. There are series of further pics...
Posted by Tushar Dhake on 2011 Apr 13 19:47:07 +0100
This pic is a fake. Look at the OHE laid above the track between the 2 locos and thats the dead giveaway. Wonder why the mods havent spotted this till now.
Posted by Harsh Dinesh on 2011 Apr 13 16:41:52 +0100
OMG! Their is rail-fracture in turnout! And to the left of gangman there is a single, rail laid on sleeper. What purpose does it serve? And catenary vanishes in mid-air..
Posted by Aamod on 2011 Apr 13 16:26:48 +0100
Then Ranjeet is wrong when he claims that 13201 was terminated at Thane.
Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2011 Apr 12 18:18:49 +0100
Very nice.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2011 Apr 12 09:58:31 +0100
Dear Mulky Sir, This location, is facing Ghatkopar. On the left of this pic, the Vidyavihar platform, ends exactly.
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2011 Apr 12 09:29:00 +0100
What is the location of this picture?
Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2011 Apr 12 05:27:20 +0100
One of the rarest captures!! Brilliant!
Posted by Abhinav Bhattacharjee on 2011 Apr 11 18:28:28 +0100
Superb catch!!
Posted by Bhaveen Patel on 2011 Apr 11 15:21:29 +0100
If i'm not wrong, I think 13201 was short terminated at TNA.
Posted by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer on 2011 Apr 11 14:00:25 +0100