India - Mumbai, the Konkan Railway & Kerala
A family holiday in India gave me the opportunity to ride and take a few pictures of Indian Railway's overloaded Mumbai commuter trains as well as taking two long distance services; the Mangalore Express from Mumbai to Mangalore down the Konkan Railway (train 12133) and the Parasuram Express from Kozhikode (Calicut) to Ernakulam Town (for Kochi). The latter is one of the slowest expresses I have ever ridden but, like every Indian train, the journey is infinitely entertaining.
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17822 is a kit bashed Alco-DLW WDM2. It is arriving in Kozhikode on train number 12287, the Dehradun Express which runs on Fridays only from Kochuveli in Southern Kerala to Dehradun in Uttarakhand, a distance of 3459 kms which takes about 56 hours (including a total of just over two and a half hours of stops).
