Wishing you all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. On this great day and after many years of delay and even today with few technical issues, finally the First Fully Air Conditioned Local Train Of Indian Railways has been inaugurated. In last minute, they decided to start its maiden run from Borivali at 10:30am. For 1 week, it will run in non peak hours and six services will be operational from Churchgate - Borivali - Churchgate. From New Years Day, it will extend services upto Virar. The description of Mega Inaugural Run and Compilation can be read as follows;

1) After purchasing a ticket to Andheri, I heard announcement, fast train skipping and in nick of time captured Empty Decorated Fully AC Emu skipping slow platform of Dadar. It was heading to Borivali from Mahalaxmi Car Shed for its inaugural run.

2) After 7mins, boarded Borivali Fast EMU from Dadar and at Santacruz from behind, my Fast EMU catches up with AC Emu and got to capture a great parallel run when the controllers gave a go ahead from Slow corridor to Fast Corridor.

3) I got down at Andheri and purchased Ac EMU ticket for INR85 for 12kms from Andheri to Dadar. Bang on time, decorated AC EMU enters in style at Andheri, comes to a halt, automatic doors open, I board it and capture its interiors, depart smoothly from Andheri , overtake slow Bombardier EMU's, cross few EMU's. We catch up with superbly accelerating slow Bombardier EMU at Santacruz, skip Santacruz at 50kph, then we accelerate and dont go beyond 60kph and we accelerate to 65kph and overtake slow Bombardier EMU at Khar Road.

4) Entering Bandra and coming to a halt in style with few commuters alighting and boarding. Look at the photographers, common men clicking snaps. I closed my camera for sometime since the train halted atleast for 3mins or slightly more.

5) We smoothly accelerate from Bandra. Being a first run, the crew was casually accelerating it to 80kph. We did top speed of 80kph till Dadar and we skipped Mahim impressively and then slow down quickly since we were trailing a Fast EMU.

6) Now I start walking through few more compartments get a crossing and overtake of another slow EMU at Matunga Road. The cooling was perfect, journey was great but seats were non cushion. At least I expected to have cushion seats just as we usually get in First Class coaches since rates are more than non AC First Class.

7) Now I wait for my train to halt at Dadar and for automatic doors to open. I get down and start walking fast and jogging past the crowd at Dadar and manage to capture its departure too.

Camera: SONY FDR AX100E

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