David Coats » train http://davidcoats.co.uk Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:23:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Chennai to Delhi by train http://davidcoats.co.uk/chennai-to-delhi-by-train/2009/09/19/ http://davidcoats.co.uk/chennai-to-delhi-by-train/2009/09/19/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:58:54 +0000 David http://davidcoats.co.uk/?p=44 I have just completed the longest rail journey of my life so far. 2 nights and 1 day on the Tamil Nadu express train between Chennai Central and New Delhi.

The train is very impressive. Wipe all your preconceptions about Indian trains being dirty, crowded and slow.  Whilst the suburban rush hour trains certainly are some or all of the above, the long distance sleeper trains are lovely. There are 7 ‘classes’ on Indian trains – 1st and 2nd class Air Conditioned (AC) sleeper, 3rd class sleeper, just ‘Sleeper’, chair class and one other which I couldn’t find…

Indians are quite crazy about their trains. Whenever we pass through a tunnel, everyone whoops, shouts and screams. Every 20 mins or so a

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