The Deccan Queen...old royalty...my childhood travel companion
The Deccan Queen...commissioned June 1 1930...I travelled on this mighty steel queen after a good 20 years last weekend...its a delight to relive the wonder years when we used to go to Pune for every school vacation...i still hang around the same place...the coffee is still good and the cutlet is still served with buttered bread...20 years and the service is still excellent...the serving chap didn't even take any money while delivering the food...said "baad mein le lenge saab"...and given all the possibilities of things going weird in terms of train delays...she left Mumbai on the dot and reached Pune on the dot...the compartment got a bit crowded after Karjat as apparently the ticket holders can board at that junction...but I had a window seat and the "drive" was totally rain green through the ghats...the rivulets of rain water running down the mountain sides...the Indian Railways can take a bow...a train well kept :)
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