Surat When a train gets delayed they say the schedule is broken. We were scheduled to leave Jalgaon at midday but our Hotel manager said “Your train is coming from Varanasi, that train is always delayed, go to the station and check what time it will arrive before you take your bags.” He was a mine of good information, he’d already supplied hot tips for good restaurants and prices for auto rickshaws, he was right again. Our train was delayed three hours. At first we thought this was a good thing, it cut back the time we would be waiting for our connection at Surat but the clock kept ticking and the train never arrived for another hour. Our second class AC carriage was next to the food cart, mmm yummy Samosa, Chicken lollypop, but given
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