Crossing the Ganga on the Farakka Barrage - New Jalpaiguri-Howrah Shatabdi (Mar. 2, 2013) 

Very nice to hear that. You must be proud to see this barrage.

Mani Vijay every time

Your grandfather is now in hell cause he was responsible for thousand people deaths

u r lucky

You must have started your journey on a broad gauge train, then switched over to metre gauge after the ferry journey, right?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTt0hCw_wo.html

Very nice to hear that. When did you live in Jalpaiguri? What routes did you usually travel on at that time? My first room-mate in graduate school (in US) is from Jalpaiguri - Sujit Bhowmick. He used to tell me all kinds of interesting stories.

We used to live there in the 80s. My father was posted there. It was such a neat and quiet town beside the Teesta river. People were so friendly then. No apartment culture was there at that time. There was a warm coherence among the neighbourhoods. So we used to visit neighbours' and relatives' places frequently and watch Ramayan, Mahabharat and Chitrahaar together on Doordarshan. My schooling started there. I was a student of Holy Child School run by the Missionaries. As Jalpaiguri was close to the hills, we used to have outings to the mountains every month. And once a year, we used to have that grand picnic from my father's office in the hills and forests of Dooars, including Bhutan. One of my father's friends was tea garden audit inspector. By that virtue, we had the opportunity to visit numerous tea gardens and experience the best hospitalities of the gardens, that's probably unavailable to the outsiders. By the grace of one of my uncles, who was a forest officer, we got to tread deep into the Lataguri jungles twice. The wonder years of my childhood!

Regarding rail routes, we enjoyed the ride from Siliguri to Darjeeling on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. We also traveled up till the border of Bangladesh at Haldibari, that's around an hour from Jalpaiguri town. From NJP, we traveled up to New Alipurduar. There used to be a metre gauge route around Coochbehar. I experienced my metre gauge ride there. There's another route from NJP that goes to Alipur Duar Junction traversing through the greeneries of Dooars, tea gardens and the foothills of the Himalayas that included Sevok, New Mal Junction, Hasimara, Raja Bhat Khawa, etc. All these are significant points of the Dooars forest. At that time, all these routes were dominated by mighty & huge steam locomotives, along with WDM-2 locos with the quintessential 80's livery. Now, these routes are dotted with modern DEMU rakes as well as ALCOs from MLDT and EMDs from SGUJ. My knack on railfanning started from this point of time, instilled by my father.

@@priyamganguly Wow! That sounds like the perfect childhood. And Dooars is simply an amazing place to be close to.

@@priyamganguly That is just great to hear. How I wish I had visited that section when MG was still alive? I can only imagine the legendary AT and Assam Mails running through Sevok, New Mal, Binnaguri, etc. During my 2013 sojourn, I did cover the remaining MG sections south of Lumding. Also, did Capital Exp. from Kamakhya to NJP and then the Shatabdi to Howrah.

Good to know that. What a wonderful structure it is.

Very glad to know that you liked the video. How long back were you in Farakka?

Saale apni biography kisko de rha hai

Dharmendra Kumar

Bhai maza too Bogota aaya

Bhai agli video can bhai

Wow! That must have been very scary. I still remember how I saw water rushing through some of the open gates and it was quite scary - the view and noise.

Mmm😂😮,r🎉vvcc ..😊😊

Mmm😂😮,r🎉vvcc ..😊😊

Seems like a great place to grow up!! Glad you enjoyed the video!

Thanks!

Great to hear that. Seems like a very nice town. Do you go there often?

@@ManiVijay yes i always go... 🙂

I also job here .... 😊😊😊

Ap Kabhi Gaye ho waha

I miss you

Jai ma

@Israf Sakh ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTt0hCw_wo.html

It's great that you enjoyed the video and felt very nostalgic. That is really why I upload these videos :-)

Did you travel a lot through this route earlier?

Well not that frequent but almost like once in 6 month or so...

After 30-50 years Muslim will be in majority in Bengal then there will be no joy for u there...

@@TharkiChachaa fuck you 🖕

Joi Poschimbongo, Bharat Mata ki Jai

@@doctordark8057 Shotti kotha ta oi angul ta dekhiye jodi palte jeto tahole khub bhaalo hoto

@@doctordark8057 I wish whatever he said would've been proven wrong by u just showing that particular finger

Ofcx

Oooo

So Horrible😲 Rivers and Sea are Dangerous because of Having Snakes,Crocodiles,Shark etc. Anyway Beautifuly Captured👌

@@sararajpoot8329 lol

@@yasindhali9216 x

Thanks! Where are you from?

Hi.. i m from Romania.

Your govt and people raped the mother Ganga. The river is filled with silts all over the river due to dam. Floods occurs frequently because of that reason. Before the dam the water level in Varanasi was 7-8m deep and now 2-4m deep full of shits , dead bodies half burnt, dead animals and sewage from 300 cities and the water is not potable and unfit for take a holly bath too. This dam has brought more harms than goods intended too, means punish Bangladesh

Great engineering work

@@bazlur-Vancouver Hey Jihadi u r everywhere

Thanks!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTt0hCw_wo.html

Thanks!

Thanks :-)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! This is the mighty Ganga. You should definitely visit this place.

Very glad you enjoyed it :-)

🙏

Yeh 2.2 kilometers hai. Yeh Ganga nadi hai.

Thanks!

Its between Malda town and Farakka.

Abhishek Mahajan Thanks. What are the day trains from Howrah to pass this bridge?

it is actually between Khaltipur station and New Farrakka Jn.

SUKUMAR BAIDYA Thanks a lot

kamrup Express from Howrah..daily runs at 3.50 pm

+Irfanul Islam Nehal You should definitely plan a trip so that you cross this barrage :-)

Irm😴q

Hare have a fine video about farakka bridge

Really glad you enjoyed the video!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTt0hCw_wo.html

Glad you enjoyed it :-)

Prashant Srivatsa faeka dam

Thanks :-)

asif ikbal It's filming

BENGAL RIDER 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Koushik Das Even this is not lawful. But the big question is who will enforce the Regulations in the train?

Asadharan

You are right

Anuj Bandyopadhyay Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTt0hCw_wo.html

Noor Alam Thanks!

Big Man .Tyrone

You are right

This is no photography. It is videography

@@Subhadip-om1sm jyada dimag LGA rha hai launde 😂🤣

Reason, reduce road accident or for smooth traffic on bridge

+Pranav Chaware Thanks! Flying over...when?

+Mani Vijay :) on 9th Dec

True!

Fife

Satyanarayan Tiwari .

This is not Farakka barrage.....only Feeder canal 😜😜😜

Thanks for the info.

Akhane valo video achhe

East Beast not really india diverts ganga water before it enters bangladesh

Haan....wahan to bohut hi chauda hai.

THE NEW BRIDGE CUM ROAD IS MORE THAN 10 KILOMETERS LONG JUST GOT INTO SERVICE

Here Ganga is very wide...this barrage is 2.24 KM long.

Hmm

I have to admit it was a little unnerving.

Kan han Pathak

+Tarik Khan THanks!

Dhannobad.

@@ManiVijay r u from Bengal?

+Ramanathan Subramanian (rsubram24) monsoon season is right for it and the bridge is located in farakka, Dist : murshidabad, West Bengal

You are right

Aajkul satellite ka daur hay aur kisi dais ki koi cheez kisi say bhee chuppi hui naheen swayy jo kuch aap kay dmagh main hay.Net par dunia kee hur cheez aa jati hay.

Dhrupad Saha and

Thanks :-)