Train to Osmanabad

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FINALY Osmanabad is on rail map...
since many years there was demand of connecting Osmanabad to rail net work of india..
after great looooong waiting...its now done, what a sigh of relief....
actually, if we see history ... we had already narrow gauge train from kurduwadi to latur ..
track ran just few kms away from Osmanabad ..u can see in the map. click the map so that u v can see in clea ly..
previosly diesel engines wud shuttle down between latur and kurduvadi..
there was no direct connection from any major cities to latur...
some years back work started on turning narrow gauge to broad gauge from kurduvadi to latur
paving new track till osmanabad.

Road and narrow gauge track
diesel engine with two coaches at Barshi
few stations which this old narrow gauge i recollects are tebhurni,shendri barshi ,kuslamb,yedshi ,dhoki, murud,...
i have very sweet memories of this small train... we use to visit my grandma's village Dhoki .
we used to take siddeshwar express from Dadar till Kurduwadi .from there either wait for small diesel train or S T...
Interestingly both road and track run parallely...sometime its was just like track is on road...
it was fun ...i always used to remembar rajesh khanna, song mere sapno ki rani....
speed of train use to be very slow ..we sometimes used to jump to next coach from outside..
main attraction of journey was Ramling ghat near Yedshi...
therz dense forest ,which is rarity in marathwada...we used get excited at the sight of monkeys, peacocks
foxes...one time i was lucky to see bibtya...leopard...


Ramling ghat

that was fun... i really cherish those memories...

now coming back to topic, since last 4-5 years ..in every rail budget making of broad gauge from kurduvadi - latur was mentioned...

i used to wonder when this project is going to complete.

finally 0n 19th october 2008 latur bound train was flagged off from cst Mumbai .

chief minister Vilas rao Deshmukh,Union ministers Shivraj Patil, Sharad Pawar, Shushil Kumar Shinde attended the function.

train for Osmanbad was already started last year via Aurangad..journey was 5 hours extra..

now with this route

The distance from Mumbai CST to Latur will now reduce from 744 kms to 529 kms, saving travelling time by about 5 hours — from 15 hours to 10 hours. The distance from CST to Osmanabad will reduce from 825 kms to 449 kms, almost by half, and the journey will take 7 hours less. Consequently, fares will be cut too...

The 1005 Latur-bound train will leave Mumbai CST at 8:55 pm and arrive at Pune junction at 12:50 am and reach Latur at 7:10 am. and at osmanabad 5:10 am
The 1006 Mumbai CST-bound train will leave Latur at 9:35 pm,will leave osmanbad 10:47 pm reach Pune junction at 3:50 am and arrive at Mumbai CST at 7:55 am.

m eagerly waiting to travel to my watan by this train...hope it comes fast.

finally railway code for Osmnabad is umd and for latur its lur
train no is 1005 from mumbai 1006 from latur..

I will love to post photographs of Osmanabd station..lemme reach there