just when we thought we were totally experienced and cool with the train system, it flummoxes us once again. we were waiting for the train at haridwar for amritsar, and had been told it would be platform 1. so we waited on platform 1. most of the standard platform announcements are made in english as well as hindi, and actually, i can now understand the standard announcements in hindi anyway. but then there were several non standard announcements, in hindi only, and we knew just enough to be able to hear our train number, and the word "platform" (which is quite easy, because the hindi for platform is, well platform). lots of people suddenly started moving to another platfrom, so okay, the platform was changed, no problem, we asked around and followed everyone to the new
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