Train Journey from Calcutta to Hyderabad

I came to our BE-136 house in saltlake, calcutta from US and then we took East Coast to hyderabad. East Coast starts in the evening and reaches Hyderabad next day. I have always loved train journeys, wathching the beautiful scenery around. The lush green fields strethcing until the horizon and mountains in the background, villages and temples.

One of my favourite activities while travelling from Calcutta to Andhra Pradesh was while passing over the Godavari Bridge. Godavari is a really wide river, must be about two-three kilometeres wide. As the train passes over it, Nannagaru and I threw coins into the river. Godavari usually comes early in the morning. In the summers it can be quite dry and in the rainy season, it floods and the water raises all the way close to the bridge.

Another thing about train journeys is co-passengers and other families travelling with us. In the short period of the 20 hrs journey we make friends and conversations and have fun. Travelling with us was a family with two children of ages 7 and 4. The little one was exceptionally talkative and extremely logical. It was fun chatting with her. The views of children often make you question so many things about what we take so much for granted. I had a flute and the older one decided to try it for sometime until she got no sounds out of it and left it from boredom.

The scenery becomes very dry and rocky as we approach closer to Hyderabad and yellows rather than greens dominate.

It is perhaps the last journey from calcutta to andhrapredesh that all three of us ever did by train and I will always remember it.