Guest Appearances on Eastern Railways: Santragachhi WAP4 with Ranchi Hatia Express

As the sun and the mist simultaneously lift over the fields of Bengal, the 15667 Sealdah Guwahati Kanchenjungha Express hauled by a Howrah WDM3A attains a steady speed of around 90-95 kmph and rushes through the Howrah-Bardhaman Chord towards Bardhaman.
The night restrictions on train travel between Kharagpur and Rourkela had wreaked havoc with train timings with the bunch of trains heading towards western India departing in the wee hours of the morning after a delay of 6-9 hours. Some trains like the Howrah-Ranchi-Hatia Express or the Howrah Rayagada Samaleshwari Express have been accommodated through some extensive re-routing. The former is featured in this video, re-routed via Asansol-Dhanbad-Chandrapura-Bokaro-Muri, enroute Ranchi. In some ways, this might even be a quicker route, as it does not necessitate a reversal at Muri and passage between Howrah and Dhanbad is arguably smoother than between Howrah and Tatanagar. Resultantly, it also means that Santragachhi WAP4s provide a daily guest appearance on the Eastern Railways; quite a rare occurrence. In this video, the 18616 Hatia-Ranchi Howrah Express crawls towards Howrah with the Santragachhi WAP4 still having its headlights switched on. Precocious Kolkata IRFCA folks such as Siddhartha Mukherjee would probably cite this video as evidence of step-motherly treatment by ER section controllers of a train hauled by an SER locomotive!

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