First Metro Rail Travel

                         

Kolkata AC Metro

         Above all this is my first blog, I introduce myself to you all. I am Abhishek De, a Civil Engineer. I love to write & want to share the things or the moments that are precious for me. Hope you'll like my blog. Enjoy reading!

        As this is my first travel through metro rail, I was bit tensed & excited too.

It was a hot & humid Saturday morning I & my friend Aritra planned to meet as he lives in Kalighat & in order to reach there metro rail is fastest route as due to office hours there's always a jam like situation which kills almost half the time.

Park Street

       As fast as possible I quickly reached Park Street, Kolkata & searched for the metro station entrance. It was very humid day & sweat is flowing like a river from every part of my body. Fortunately I got the entrance gate & entered the metro station.

        

As soon as I entered the station, a cool breeze flowing inside the station as it was Air-Conditioned & obviously it has to be either wise people will tend to suffocate in underground platform.Anyways, I checked in after all the security rituals being performed & purchased a ticket to Kalighat. They gave me a plastic coupon (further got it as metro ticket), as I have attached the image of the ticket & you've to keep it to your destination station either wise they'll fine you.  Proceeding towards the entry-gate, as I was novice, didn't knew how to do check in through the entry-gate. I saw & did exactly the same as my previous traveler did.

Metro Ticket

When performing all these activities, an AC metro arrived & departed too, bad luck. 

Waiting for another metro, a non-AC metro arrives, door slides & I get in to the metro. My friend said that AC metro is bit suffocating as it is closed from everywhere, but I can't say much as I haven't experienced it yet. Getting in, all the seats were full, I had to stand & travel no option. Clearly speaking non-AC metro are also good they'r also in good condition, not that hot & not that cool inside.

Announcement begins inside the metro & I can't get even a single word as it was too low to hear it. I was tensed & I have to be alert to get down at the right station.

Inside View of non-AC Metro

      Hopefully, a route map is attached inside the train & I got to know about which station train is preceding. Inside the train, I was looking here & there like a small child as my stoppage was 4 stations away. Finally my stoppage came & I quickly got down started searching for the exit point. Ticket has to be submitted in the exit-gate machine & if the ticket got misplaced or you've came to wrong stoppage the personnel will charge you a fine.

AC Metro

Exiting from the station, my friend was standing with a smile in his face. 

After meeting I went back through metro, by fortunate I got an AC Metro, it is called "Kismat" in hindi & my precious metro journey comes an end.

Hope, you have enjoyed my riding experience. I was very happy that day & will not forget this day ever in my life.

Sayonara, Take Care readers.