Double Decker Sinhagad Exp. Trip - July 1995
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- My first and only journey, so far, on a non-AC double decker train. My uncle and I were able to get seats on the upper deck, without prior reservation, since the train wasn't that crowded. It was definitely a memorable experience. Along the way, I was able to enjoy plenty of crossings which included:
- WCM5-hauled Hyderabad-Bombay Exp. (at Dadar)
- WCM2-hauled Mahanagri Exp.
- WCM4-hauled Madras-Bombay Exp. (at Kalyan)
- WCM5-hauled Deccan Exp.
- WCM5-hauled Udyan Exp. (at Lonavala)
- WCM5-hauled Indrayani Exp. (at Pimpri)
In fact, Indrayani simply blasted through Pimpri station. Other DC locos such as WCG1 (Kekda) and WCG2 can be seen in this video, as well.
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Things are similar ,today. Never knew that Sinhagad used to run with DD coaches. Thank You sir for sharing this 😁
1 - Maroon coaches of those times
2 - WCM/G, Kekda, Pappu Locos 😊
3 - DC locals without safety grills
4 - Push Pull Diva local (i almost forgot about it)
5 - AC 2T small windows
6 - Short heightened Stations in those times
7 - Xtra Line just outside pf.4 of Kalyan (ambarnath end)
8 - Classic Nostalgia
9 - Add more points if i forgot something
10 - No encroachment/construction near Kalyan goods yard
11 - lush greenery, clean air in those times
12 beautiful track sound of ICF coaches
ICF rajdhani and shatabdis
7th is very close to my heart❤
13. No 5th & 6th line between CST & Kalyan
14. No skywalks
15. Only one FOB every station.
16. No full sheds on platforms of many stations
17. Waiting rooms, staff rooms, raiway police office, hotel etc. etc. on platform 4 of Kalyan
18. Not much rush inside train
Great to see old kings like WCM5 in action. These locos really had presence.
Agree 100%. My favourite IR loco.
True. The WCMs had great personality
Yes truly majestic locos
Mani bhai ka jawab nahi.
Ek ek poorana hira chupke se nikalte rehte hain time to time youtube par
Very good video from archives.
This takes me back to childhood. I remember when I was a kid, I used run to the balcony to watch this train pass early morning before going to school. I live near Chinchwad station which is on Mumbai-Pune route and can be seen here. This video is pute nostalgia! The transformation of the stations on this route has been amazing. Now even the smaller stations look much organized.
Thank you for uploading this video!
It was a pleasure to see the world before we were born!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Best Capture Ever.... ❤ This video is the archive of Indian Railways.... I am 2003 born and I feel this... Being a railfan, it's so fascinating to watch trains of earlier era, thank you for presenting this Time Machine in form of video..
I was around 3 years old when I had traveled and I don't remember much except brief flashes of familiar nostalgia. However, one can see how much things have changed. It was wayyy dirtier and disorganized before. But also much greener in the ghats than today. I guess in some ways we're doing better but hope to see more natural beauty on such routes
I spent my childhood in Mumbai. My family used to get on Nagercoil express from Kalyan. The announcement from the station, the noise of EMUs just refreshed my memory so hard that I could even felt the smell of the stations and the train.
Beautiful nostalgia…!!! Remembered our holiday to Bombay in the summer of 1995 :)
This is a treasure trove for enthusiasts looking for footage from a bygone era. Wonderful passion for posterity. Only wish some of those old locos could have been preserved or restored for use on heritage routes like they do in Germany, Switzerland and other places.
Then what do they do of the locos
Very nice, i also traveled by sinhgad exp my childhood time, it is one my favorite train, that experience was awesome.
Mani sir unleashing one more valued treasure from his vault
🙏🙏. Many more to come ....
@@ManiVijay pls sir we are eager to watch all of them
90s era of Mumbai
-"Everywhere i go, i see D.C loco and D.C EMUs
Thanks a lot sir for this lovely video. It reminds me of my school days. Golden era of 90's. In those days Railways used to put general coaches in between sleepers little bit unusual.
gold footage of an by gone era thanks for uploading this mani sir
Mani is probably India,s first railway vlogger
nostalgic recall. residing in Pune during 1993 94 often travelled on Pune Bombay direction. while for return found Pragati convinient
This man is time machine.... thx sir
Just great I think it's the first double Decker of India
Mani sir,you are really legendary railfan.Surprizingly,
I see those scene when in 1995 , double Decker train was available at VT railway station.
congratulations sir you got 50k subscriber
2:34 pleased to see this legend WCG1
I remember you had posted a small clip few years ago travelling in this train when it was entering Dadar Station
Those days CR didn't have any train running with polluting diesels from CST. What a wonderful 👍 moment it was. Travelling with WCG2 or WCM5 locos hauled trains were amazing 🤩🤩. I have travelled in Dadar Chennai WCG2, Deccan Queen WCM 5, Indrayani WCM 5, Hussainsagar WCG 2 nd many more.
Thank you like always for these videos, sir!!
Sir your 90s railfanning videos are god gift for this generation railfans Thanks a Lot 💙💙
Great clip. Remembering the wonderful time. Thank you and Gold bless you
Glad you enjoyed it
Lovely mesmerising musical track sounds which are extinguishing with time these days as most of the tracks are joint together by welding them.
thanks for uploading
Best video Sir ❤,this is my old days l was also ride from Pune to VT in Duble decker,I love my golden days❤❤👌👌👌👌🙏🙏
Superb video. A treasure for posterity. Thank you
I’m so happy to see old chinchwad and pimpri, lush greenery in between these stations.
No construction near Kasarwadi station.
Pune was heaven that time❤
The DC Days :)
Life was simple.. People reading newspaper n chit chatting.
Pure gold
Thank You!
Wonderful! Enjoyed every minute of your video: and a day will come when your videos will be part of study on the workings and the condition of the Indian Railways!
Once again thank you!
I suggest you to make a video on "Different type of horns indian railway"
Singhgad express was First to have DD coaches in I think around 1978 or so and then later introduced in WR FLYING RANEE. It discontinued on Singhgad express abruptly with 2 years or so ....but Flying Ranee ran with DD coaches for almost 40 years till August 2023 ....
Correct! Originally, Sinhagad DD coaches had the CR day livery - cream-blue. Have seen that live. Initially, Flying Ranee's DD coaches were Olive Green with a white band (similar to the WCAM1 at that time). Have seen those live as well.
Sir you are totally deserved to Hall of fame in Indian railways
Thanks a lot 🙏.
In this video camera was facing some difficulties because in some parts the audios are mute with the distortion of video
33:55 the WAP7 of 90s
It was our must do activity while travelling from Mumbai to Lonavala ( timing was convenient...2.15 pm from VT...reaching Lonavala by 5.30 pm or so...).. during our child hood days... Had mentioned this in your earlier post... The seating arrangements in upper deck near the steps was very uncomfortable... No leg space..could be seen in your footage@ 39.00 min) Once suffered leg cramps( that was also the last time i travelled in Sinhgad exp..in late eighties.)Now the coaches are used in valsad fast passenger train from Mumbai cntrl..
Watching the trailing bogies or the hauling loco from upper deck window in khandala ghat was just so relaxing.
Best time to travel ghat section is monsoon time like in the video
7:03 the WCM series have very different and sweet horns
Now the 2:30 pm timing of Pune bound sinhagad has changed to 5:50 pm (the slot of the then sahyadri express)
Super ❤️
Beautiful Electromagnetic brakes.....screetchnsound....Now LHB has disc brakes
great sir you make my day
Actually previous version of non AC double decker coaches has upper and lower berth near main door, but as of today Flying Ranee DD coaches, mfg in 2001-02 does not have those type of sittings.
very rare footage
Simply beautiful Compilation. 4.5 hrs just for Mumbai Pune, quite the slow run back then
Thanks! Yes, it was on the slower side even if we include the fact that it had 9 halts.
10:01 kurla part cut 💔😔dadar to direct diva
Lower deck accumulated dust while passing through platforms. Might be due to this, the DD was discontinued and AC DDs were introduced which are also being terminated in some of the sections where they were running.
I do remember our trip to Pune. That was mainly to explore the possibility of purchasing working models of miniature train engines. Perhaps you remember the batata vada joke also.
where I can find those miniatures in Pune, are they still available
First viewer sir . I like your video very much please upload videos daily.
An era with no mobile phones.....
Yes.
Fantastic views & memories of those golden days!
By the way why the DD coaches discontinued as the similar arrangements still available in Flying Ranee of WR.
Currently ther is one central line we wel. Mumbai to madgaon DD train
May have to do with under utilized capacity on Mumbai-Pune train route. The Vashi (road) bridge probably resulted in a drop in use of trains as people now had more and faster options to reach places like Lonavala
Nostalgia remember as a kid sitting in these coaches
What did you feel about the comfort level inside these coaches?
@@ManiVijay at the time it did not matter we had never seen the soft seat in Emu units or passenger train as this one.
Now thinking back makes me wonder how we took out the entire journey on wooden benches.
The lower level seats were in line with the platform and they weren't as clean as you have them now 🫣
I didn't know , DDs existed back in 90s
Niiicceee. I thought you had run out of videos from 1990s Mumbai. This was a pleasant surprise.
11:11 these DMUs(though they used to have single locomotive) have unique shape. Sadly non of them are now running
Demus are running even today
@@pandu6082 not on that particular line
@@arunabhapaul8656 why?
@@pandu6082 Because electrifying happened and now MEMUs run there
nice sir..😀😀
Sir, the vlog is awesome. I remember watching a black & white video clip from this train's inauguration way back in the late 1970s on Twitter. Passengers were dressed in cloths like bellbottoms (for men) & sarees/salwar kameez (for women). I presume this is the only other train apart from Flying Rani to get Non-AC DD coaches. Hyderabad-Bombay Express had the typical VB style shell AC coach that reminded me of my childhood time train journeys during the early 1990s. WCM giants were always amazing on VT-Kalyan section, beyond which trains would either get WAM-4s or WDM locos. Truly a nostalgic entertainment. I've shared your video clip on Twitter so please do join me over there 😀
31:40 changing track in good speed
Super video ❤️👍 and lovely video
A thing to note in this video is most of the passengers are reading newspapers which is been replaced by smartphones today
उस जमाने में लोग ये गाडी देखणे के लिये जगह जगह भीड जमाकर खडे रहते थे...
This is a legend video!
13:06 😀❤️
Icf looks similar as today except it’s painted nowadays
7:02 WOW WCM5
To those asking why DD trains were discontinued on this route, I believe the construction of the Vashi road bridge gave people a faster and convenient option to travel from Mumbai to Pune and places on that route. This made train travel redundant for many resulting in a drop in ridership. Years later, the Expressway and introduction of AC buses caused an even bigger drop in IR capacity utilization on that sector. Trains nowadays are just not convenient and practical if you take into consideration the hassles of traveling to stations in Mumbai to catch long distance trains.
My old days
Hello sir, huge respect for your rail vlogging, I want to meet you sir and make a short film on you, youtube railfans are eagerly waiting for your interview sir
You are very kind 🙏. Would love to meet you during my next India visit. Where do you reside?
Kalyan 😍
24:34 this WCM4 honks were like WAM4 not the regular WCMs. Sir how the WCG1 horns sounded?
firse yaha gadi double decker karni chahiye iske leye ky karna hoga sir
my fevret train he sinhagad express
❤❤❤
Too good.
Mani Sir, please upload videos of WCM locos running in Kasara Igatpuri section
Wow 😁 thanks.
1:44 I can see the number on the coaches just before he said about wds6 .the number is 9782 that means the coach made in 1997 right??.... But mani Vijay sir telling us that.... This video is made in 1995 . HOW,HOW,HOW??????
Double decker in 1995 😳 ?
nice video sir
Thank u so much for this video😀😀
41:31 another chotu WDS4
41:50 the cabin bulb
Although double decker journey gives different feeling but the lower deck passengers are not too happy than the upper deck
16:13 i think this EMU is coming from karjat or Khopoli
Which smartphone you used back then ??
Why DD was closed down on Sinhagad express????
41:18 King fisher livery ALCO
🙏👍💕🇮🇳
Sir what's the speed at that time that's my childhood
Classic
what was the fair sir till pune
9:29 those days EMUs had black iron roofs
Specially,diamond pantos in those days????
No one has recorded the whisstles (Horns) of WCM series.
Hope you enjoyed the horn of the WCM5 as it was hauling the Indrayani Exp. past Pimpri.
@@ManiVijay yes sir yes sir. Tons & loads of Thank you sooooooo much. Only you could understand my need. Thank you once again with salutes & salutes.