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Train Journey Sep 2018

An ever improving Indian Railways

I enjoy train journeys and feel comfortable while travelling as well. Indian trains over time have become faster and punctual as well as cleaner.

Earlier, toilets in trains used to be very very dirty. There used to spitting marks inside railway coaches as well as garbage of all sort including beer bottle lying all around.

Recently, private companies have been given contracts to take care of cleanliness of coaches as well as toilets. Now Indian railway scores much higher on cleanliness. Not only things have improved, complaining is also just a tweet away. If you are not satisfied with any service, or you feel certain service is required, just tweet and within few minutes swift actions are taken.

One thing that is missing most is the availability of variety of Food available at different platform. Live cooking also seems to have been stopped. I suspect certain security reasons behind this, which may be because of train blasts that may have occurred in past.

Although overall Timing of trains might have improved, of 2 train journeys that I was part of, on one train there were issues with timing. Train from Amritsar to Jammu Tavi is at 1 AM or so at night, but train was late by an hour or so and journey started at 2:30 A.M or so. It was too late for journey to start and inconvenient. Good food with variety used to be charm of Indian railways, but may be of the past. With increased security arrangement, if it may be re initiated, train journey would be more interesting.

Another lacking feature in Indian Railways is Seating facility at platforms. The train that was delayed by an hout at night 1AM was not enough, there was not place to sit on platform.

Below were my train journey details:
Mum to Amritsar ( 30-Aug at 9:30 PM, reached Amritsar on 1-Sep at 5:30 AM )
Golden temple express 12903
3 tier 1900 rs
Amritsar to Jammu 19225 ( 3-Sep at 1 AM, reached Jammu by 7:15 AM or so)
2 tier AC 700 rs
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