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How could the 12951 Rajdhani Express leaving Mumbai Central at 4.40pm and reaching Delhi at 8.35am the next day save him time, compared to a flight departing Mumbai at 6.30am and landing in Delhi at 8.40am the same day?.
For Kannan, this approach to business travel brings another kind of joyhe has loved trains since he was a child, playing make-believe games and dreaming of being a locomotive driver..
I would go a step further and say that a locomotive pilots job is harder than an airplane pilots job." Childhood trips from Mumbai to Kolkata on trains started Arpan Mitras lifelong love affair..
Since I have watched trains for many years, I can recognize a locomotive model from its horn and generator sound, even at a distance," he says, explaining, if it makes a humming sound like an aircraft, we can identify the locomotive as an electromotive diesel such as the WDP4 or WDG4..
Trains have been around since the dawn of industrialization when on 27 September 1825, Locomotion No. 1,built by George Stephenson at his son Roberts company, the Robert Stephenson and Company, became the worlds first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line..
