Itarsi Junction (standard:travel stories, 692 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Feb 02 2013	Views/Reads: 2684/1849	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Itarsi Junction is a main raiway terminal in the center of India. Juggernaut shares his experiene of travelling through Itarsi Junction few decades ago.

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chaos with porters, passengers and visitors bumping each other. 

Juggernaut walked up and down the platform looking at several 

food stalls only to find that every stand was selling the same items; 

boiled potatoes and Puri, a deep fried flat brad, and chai or tea to 

drink. For a such a busy railway junction at the cross roads of the 

country, there was no choice at the of food carts. 

With so many trains crisscrossing the Itarsi station carrying 

millions of passengers, the facilities for travelling passengers at the 

station were very limited then. 

At the Itarsi station like any other railway station in India, 

the train tracks also serve as receptacle for passenger's trash. 

Passengers routinely threw empty food containers, fruit peelings and 

other waste on the tracks hoping the heavy train wheels would crush the 

trash like a trash disintegrator under a kitchen sink. All the waste 

food on the tracks feed the massive rat population making the tracks at 

the platform the most unsanitary place for people working on the tracks.


During the last four decades, the Itarsi station 

certainly would have modernized.   Now, gone with steam locomotives, 

only diesel and electrical trains carry passengers. One would expect a 

great deal of improvement in rest rooms and sanitary facilities for the 

benefit the passengers at the station.  Hopefully the food vendors were 

providing more choice like idly, dosa and upma, and coffee in addition 

to tea.  More importantly, the passengers were stopped using the 

railway tracks as dust bin and the health authorities got a grip on rat 

population on the tracks. 

Itarsi Junction is a marvelous railway terminal to 

travel through to watch the massive rail yard with innumerous tracks 

with trains pulling in and out of the terminal particularly during 

night time under the glaring floodlights. 


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