@first blogger:
please refer to the link of Gitanjali express in indiarailinfo.com

@first blogger:
it will get confirm

@first blogger:
Hopefully it will get confirmed. IF it is E-ticket, your ticket will get automatically cancelled if it DOES NOT come into RAC or gets confirmed. That is if it is still waitlist at chart preparation, the E-ticket will automatically get cancelled. Best of Luck and good wishes.

@Murli: Mar 06 (08:22AM)
@ first blogger :
You are not allowed to travel with Ticket under WL status. In case you travel on such WL ticket, you are treated as ticketless traveller and face its consequences.
Better you wait for confirmation of ticket. Or for RAC status - (one step ahead to WL status), which permits you to travel with an assured seat (on twin sharing basis)

@first blogger:
There are chances of confirmation. Next time please book tkt upto BELPAHAR, you will be on GNWL. It is always better to avoid, Bilaspur/Raigarh/Jharsuguda because booking to these points will place you under PQWL.
All the Best.

@first blogger:
It means you will be alloted berth at the time of chart preparation.
You be rest assured bcoz you will definitely find your berth in the chart.

@first blogger:
It means Reservation Against Cancellation (RAC), you will be allotted with a Seat (Beside Window) but not a Berth. After the Chart Prepartion you will be able to see your Coach No. and seat Allotted to you.

@first blogger: Dec 04 01:23PM
2261 - 2262 - ticket cost includes cost of meals and drinks and water .............

@anon: Dec 04 01:35PM
1500-per bottle is the drinking water
so think before you drink

@first blogger:
in duronto you will get 2 ltrs of rail neer drinking water from O to D. if you want more then you have to pay. this is my personal experience. i boarded twice. food is excellent ,coaches are neat and clean approx every 30 minutes you will be getting coach attendent for cleaning of windows glass and toilets. i am fully satisfied with their hospitality.

@first blogger:
Better to have standby arrangement of drinking water. You get fixed water supply from Rlys and extra payment for more requirement.
Although catering is included in the ticket cost, it is better to make some kind of standby arrangement of eatables particularly when you are travelling with childrens. No doubt, you get more eatables (with limited choice) on extra payments and may also get some eatables at stations of technical halts.

how about from Howrah to Mumbai - does it still get the rush from local crowd in the reserved compartment. How is the AC3 tier condition.

This train is best avoided.

From anon: Gitanjali is not an East Coast (ECor) train.

then why or how this blog is here with it's anti ODISHA remarks? despite your claims of impartiality?

Sir, sometimes blogs have inaccurate info, because they are written by humans prone to human error. Whenever you come across such blogs, please respond with a correction in neutral matter-of-fact language. That will set things straight. Thanks a lot for your participation.

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Sir, whenever you come across comments with inaccurate info, please respond in neutral language, and we will take action to correct and/or remove such info.
Offensive language is strictly not permitted here. Thanks for your cooperation.

Sir, what you say is possible. But, even so, the best way is to respond in neutral language correcting the info. This will serve the purpose of negating the inaccurate. Offensive language will not serve any purpose, and will get removed from this forum. Thanks.

they will never heed to a neutral matter-of-fact language. they want to create friction within ECoR on language basis. you can read the visakha or prasanti blog where nothing but pure fact was writen from our side and the cr ap from theirs.

Offensive language should not be perimited but it is only to curse and abuse them i write those words. otherwise i never use them.

some times I thinks not to get back to your website but my love for INDIAN RAILWAY and the attraction of sharing things with like minded persons forces me to open it every day.

Sir, please continue to write just the facts in neutral language. That will more than serve the purpose of giving accurate info. As for the politics behind this, please do understand that we have no control over it.
What we can do best here is to provide good information to the best of our abilities. Please do continue to participate in this forum. Thanks.

you are not required to urge me to participate in this forum. just to escape the game's fate i do not log in otherwise my inputs are more than th ecombined of mr. jain and jitesh.(between us) majority of them are uncivilized reaction to andhra bogus claims and ultimately gets deleted very fast.

I am really surprised to see you working late in night albeit BOMBAY does not sleep.

Sir, in that case, thanks for your posts. Keep the language neutral and matter-of-fact, and provide the best info you can, and you can get our assurance that your posts will not be removed. Our community of users, admins and behind-the-scenes people come from a diverse community, and we do not have any agenda to promote any specific region or any other aspect of the Railways.
You may acquire a login, since you really do not have to register, or provide any confidential info. You can use your existing mail id to login.
In either case, thanks and happy blogging.

@moderator and other bloggers, The moderator is right. You cannot stop anyone from making any comments about any State. Best is to ignore them. Do not respond. If a snake is hissing at you, the best is to keep quiet, and it will go away. If you provoke it, it will come to attack you again and again. Just think of it in that manner. Anti state comments are best ignored.
As for Odisha or Orissa, my former company's factory is there in Rayagada: JK Paper Mills. And my friend's wife is from Orissa, and I love the way people treat me there, and how I am regarded as a brother by my friend's in laws (I am a South Indian by the way - saying it only to illustrate).
You say you are a lover of trains. So what if somebody comments about some State? Let them comment. If you love trains, concentrate only on the trains aspect. Why bother about politics, social comments. If you can help somebody who needs information, you would have done a service to that person. There is a saying: people only remember for a long time negative things, while good things are remembered only for a very short time.
Your leaving the site will not remove those negative minded people. Will it? No. Who is the loser? You.. and me, and the other travelling public who are asking for information that you know better. So whom are you trying to help? The genuine passenger or traveller who does not know what to do, or where to find information. Correct? So take this in that spirit sir. Good wishes. We are all Indians and on this site all Indian Railway Fans...
As administrator, I will be the first one to remove offensive/vulgar comments. But upto a point I will tolerate comments because we are a democracy, and this site is also democratic. But as Administrator/Moderator, we have the right as the Speaker in the Parliament or the Assembly, we can remove from the proceedings that are outside the decorum of the site.

@moderator*: Nov 28 2009 (11:53PM)
Getanjali and puri express share rakes so some time u cn also fine ECor coaches

Most of the times, try to Avoid travelling in UP/Bihar going trains since these trains are very dirty. I don't know why but most of the trains going to Up/Bihar/WB are dirty. Travel by Sevegram-- This is a first class trains connects to Nagpur.

Coahes are dirty and infested with cockroaches and rats!!...... Worst train use 2101/ 2102 instead

Now there is a much better train - 2261/2262 Duronto - 5 hours faster than Gitanjali!

hakaakjdh

Travel by 2261 or 2101. Instead

Beggers and ennuch's are biggest supporters of earlier rly min Lalu.they also have links with railway protection force(RPF),Train Ticket examiners(TTE) and loco pilots.I have seen a Begger who lends money on intrest and his turnover is in Lakhs.So let us not encourage them.

beggars and eunuchs were there even before Lalu became the railway minister. it is the running staff like TTE, RPF etc who get a portion of the earnings who support such people, irrespecive of the railway minister.

It has become widespread during the period of LALU.

अरे तू बावला हो गया है क्या ? चल भाग यहाँ से

यहाँ पर ये सब नहीं chalega

लालूवा को मैल कर, अपना प्राब्लम बोल, ज़रूर तेरा हेल्प करेगा,उसके डूस बेटी कभी काम ayega

excuse me this is not a social website whr you beg people for friendship....please scribble something only if you have anything RELEVANT to discuss or go to ORKUT or FACEBOOK to add friends...

जाने do

boss kaam hogaya

tere dimakva thikane to hai na

chal bhag yahan se abhi to chota bacha hai

any1 frm Tatanagar ?

this train is gud all d way..no matter whr u board from...one of most prestigious train of india