A Full Journey Compilation of #20904 #Mahamana Express - Varanasi to Vadodara.

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#Humsafar Express FULL JOURNEY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsA5xFvJ9s&t=155s

Playlist of all Journey Compilations - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsitpf0ieU-8vhCdIXmGFzXxVTM0849Hb

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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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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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