The "red carpet welcome" for VIPs has also gone green!
Also, are the edge of windows going below platform level because little Saloon Siding platform might be little higher than normal platforms?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Apr 03 18:49:58 +0000

I agree, Alok. This design has uncanny resemblance in interiors and color scheme too with NJTransit Bilevel trains running on short distance intercity runs. Mumbai-Surat, Mumbai-Pune are two sectors that immediately come to mind for these coaches.

Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Apr 03 15:17:45 +0000

I fear that aluminium strip lining the angle coming out within first week of operation. These days buses are built better!

Posted by Aseem Johri on 2010 Apr 03 12:14:34 +0000

to add on - Electric supply point for each Row.

Posted by Hrishikesh Moghe on 2010 Apr 03 10:55:54 +0000

I wonder which method is more space efficient: seats facing in a single direction or facing each other. The latter seems to be a much better way of doing this. It makes the seating area feel less congested. AC ducts are right above the window thus pushing the luggage racks more towards the aisle. This seems to be good since it makes stowing luggage into the rack from the aisle much easier. These coaches should be used for cheap Intercity trains all over the country.

Posted by Alok Patel on 2010 Apr 03 09:27:40 +0000

AC coach would have a relatively fewer number of slightly better disciplined passengers than a non AC coach. If you have traveled by Flying Ranee, you would have seen more than 500 passengers in each DD coach, and the same width of the staircase. And even though we have many shoulders and bottoms rubbed (read Bharath Moro's trip report), thank God, we have not had major accidents as yet.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2010 Apr 03 08:27:56 +0000

As usual, the finishing of the walls is not up to the mark.

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2010 Apr 03 07:20:47 +0000

I wonder if it could have helped if the stairs were exclusively for going to the upper deck on one side and to the lower deck from the other side, instead of this narrow bi directional ones?

Posted by Milind on 2010 Apr 03 05:38:29 +0000

Karan, this happens in normal AC Chair car too. Some lucky ones get a full window, some get only the wall.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2010 Apr 03 05:17:16 +0000

I really like whoever's brainchild it is to have opposite facing seats with each pair getting one big window. Bus style back-to-back seats in LHB Shatabdis result in some people getting a big part of the window and some unfortunate souls get a thick solid pillar blocking their view!

Posted by Karan Desai on 2010 Apr 03 05:12:50 +0000