public-transport on S Anand

Resilience of London transport

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

The public transport reacted beautifully to the damage. I had to take Bus 259 from Finsbury Park to Tottenham Police Station. As I waited at the bus stop, I saw a 259 double decker pull in. Followed by another. And another. And another. Four double-decker buses following one after the other – and they ended up getting filled. Almost felt like a train, except without rails and a floor above.

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harish 15 Jul 2005 1:52 am: hey i did not know you were in london. glad to know u guys r fine.

British humour

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 12:00:00 +0000

If it weren’t happening to me, I’d appreciate the British sense of humour.

I was at the King’s Cross station, buying tickets for the next week at a counter.

“Hi, um… I already have a zone 1-5 pass…”

“Con-gra-tu-LAY-tions!”

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Anonymous 11 Jan 2007 1:13 pm: dont follow the humour

Mumbai bus and train schedule

Tue, 04 May 2004 12:00:00 +0000

Mumbai Navigator from IITB tells you how to get from one place to another in Mumbai, using the local bus and train services. Also has maps. (Here’s the old Mumbai Navigator.)

Alphonso has the full Mumbai local train timetables as pictures.

If you’re looking for street maps, Google Maps has a pretty good street map of Mumbai. But it’s not as good as MapMyIndia, which gives you the driving route from Nariman Point to Bandra for instance.

Punctuality of Bombay trains

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:00:00 +0000

12:05 Churchgate

Hmm, maybe it’s not just the London and Tokyo trains you can set your watch by. On the way back from my trip to Ullas Nagar, I was sitting at the Bandra station waiting for the 12:05 to Churchgate. (That’s 12:05AM – as in the middle of the night.) The train was late, and I was enjoying the last of my plum cakes on the platform.

Two old people clad in khadi strutted in, and looked at the display. It said “12:05 C”. The older one said, “Heck, we’ve missed the train. Let’s go to the next platform.”

“No, we couldn’t. It says ‘12:05 C’. The train’s coming,” says the “younger”.

The older one purposefully turns towards the big clock on the station, points to it, and says, “Look. It’s 12:10. The 12:05 train has left.” End of argument.

Maybe there’s something to be said for the punctuality of local trains in Mumbai, after all.

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raj 7 May 2007 4:54 pm: ullas nagar is not anywhere near on the bandra-churchgate railway link, but miles apart on different part of the town. don’t fool the people, learn bombay’s geography first
raj 7 May 2007 4:56 pm: and ullas nagar is not spelt as you have spelt it. It’s called Ulhas Nagar. And if you have missed the 12:05C train, you don’t have to change platforms, but simply wait there for arrival of the next train. you don’t change platforms for evry missed train. wake up, man.
S Anand 7 May 2007 5:02 pm: Raj, correction noted on the spelling of Ulhas Nagar. I was lugging furniture from Ulhas Nagar to my new house in Bandra. After moving it in, I was waiting to take the train to Churchgate, which was where my old house was. Trains from Bandra to Churchgate come on platforms 2 and 4. The 12:05 was on platform 2. The 12:10 was at Platform 4. You didn’t HAVE to change platforms, but catching the next train, in this case, meant you did.