Train Jam at Anand Vihar Station

22 May 2009: 1400PM to 2330PM

What a day!!!! I started out at 14:00pm to catch a loco in the rains and ended up doing a marathon railfaning for 9 hours with Mr. Vishvanathan keeping me company.

I came back home at 23:50pm. The reason being that something had happened somewhere ahead of Ghaziabad. Some people said that there was a Goods Train strike, while some said Laaloo Prasad Yadav had initiated this, while others said that some train got derailed. The LPs didn't have any information either. So there was utter chaos. Trains were lined up back-to-back and in some cases they were buffer-to-buffer. The saga continued from 1300 hrs to 0000 hrs - that's when I decided to leave. But it was an amazing day.

I saw 16 trains lined up on a single track back-to-back and this included 4 Rajdhani Express including Ranchi, Sealdah, Howrah, Guwahati, and RJPB Rajdhani, apart from JYJ Garibrath, Bihar Sampark Kranti, Sampoorn Kranti, Poorva Express, Lichavi, Bareilly Intercity, some WAG-7's and WAG-5's running light, and much more. I have never witnessed such a sight and today it was extraordinary.

Some of the salient aspects of todays railfanning:

1. Lot of crowd on the tracks
2. Rajdhani Express standing back-to-back
3. WAP-1 22029 that was changed to WAP-4 and re-converted to WAP-1 retaining WAP-4 livery
4. Bhagat Ki Kothi WDG 3

Loco's seen today in chronological order from 1400pm to 2330pm:

GZB WAP-7 30233
LDH WDM-3A 16277R
LDH WDM-3A 14103
LKO WDM-2A 16669
LDH WDM-3A 18878
GZB WAP-4 22721
LDH WDM-2 18879
HWH WAP-4 22321
GZB WAP-7 30247
TKD WAG-5 21124
TKD WAG-5 23500
GZB WAP-1 22029
HWH WAP-4 22242
GMO WAP-7 30204
MGS WAP-4 22587
JHS WAG-7 27519
BRC WAP-4E 22292
CNB WAG-7 27272 (Palindrome)
LKO WDG-3A 13372
BGKT WDG-3A 14835
CNB WAP-4 22608
MGS WAP-4 22243
CNB WAP-4 22539
SGUJ WDP-4 20074
AJNi WAG-9 31089
GZB WAP-7 30235
GZB WAP-7 30222
JHS WAG-7 27519
TKD WDP-3A - 15527
CNB WAP-4 22235
MGS WAG-5 23059 (Barbie Doll)
SGUJ WDP-4 20080
GZB WAG-5 23797
GZB WAP-1 22033
GZB WAP-5 30017
CNB WAP-4 22284
TKD WDM - 16274

Here are some pics:





What a Day!!! Awesome Experience!!