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Track: Construction - Single-Line Electrification

The agony of railfan

The feeling cant be described, when you do everything right. Book tickets in advance for journey. leave a superfast train, which reaches very early in the morning and book tickets in an express train, so that you can capture the moment in broad daylight. Leading upto the journey, you discover some technical fault occured and the trains are short terminated, but you console yourself, that things will be okay, as there is a long time for your journey. As days pass, but atill there is no development and...
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you start to worry, but still feel things will be okay.

And finally you receive a message before the day of journey that the train will not go via the bridge and will be short terminated and the dream is shattered. the excitement becomes agony, but still hope to capture the moment via bus.

hope you understand my feelings of capturing pamban bridge on a bus..

Throwback to an older time.

Pre-covid Madurai (MDU) - Rameshwaram (RMM) passenger passes through the bascule section of the old Pamban bridge towards Pamban hauled by the customary Golden Rock (GOC) WDG3A 13194.
The Indira Gandhi Setu, which is the road bridge connecting the mainland and Rameswaram is seen in the background.
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taken: 15 July 2019)