Had gone to drop my Friend on 1st December 2022, for Azad Hind Express. He had booked in AC 2 Tier and got this old rust bucket. 2000 made AC 2 Tier Coach, A2 was 2011 made. Classic CR Maintainence.
HUMONGOUS Crowd for this train coupled with Intercity/Indrayani Express coming to Platform No.2. We barely made it till the end the end of Platform#3 where a huge line was waiting for General Coach. Train itself was shunted at 06:45 PM and left exactly at 07:00 PM. The insipid and idiotic morons of Central Railways Pune Division are waiting for a Stampede to happen before they might get a sense of what they're into really. This Station CLEARLY cannot handle the crowd...
more... it gets, couple that with Idiotically Careless attitude of Central Railways, you've got a Ticking Time Bomb in your hands.
I'd rather go to Mumbai to take trains rather than risk getting killed here in a Stampede or experiencing sub standard maintanence like all Pune Division Train.
Also to note, my friend Reached his Station Rourkela at 01:30 AM courtesy of "the great and punctual" SECR.