Local Trains


This is what happens when something is too cheap.

Can you see a train? I see a human centipede
A train travel's quality depends on 3 factors:

  1. Space in the compartment
  2. Number of people
  3. Cheapness of ticket
It seems while maximising 2 and 3, they completely forgot about 1...like completely.

How is it physically possible to fit so many people into such small spaces? (No "that's what she said" jokes) The only other place I have seen so many living creatures in a single place is a bee-hive. It is amazing to see how people get perplexed by the sight of other passengers fit into an already Indian filled train cabin (you know it's a quite a lot if it is Indian filled), it looks like they go into some other dimension...

Who thought the gateway to some other dimension would be some local train station 40 km from Kolkata?


It seriously feels like living in an armpit. We'd give the game "Plague Inc" a good run for their money by actually spreading diseases. It is a custom to take a bath after a trip on the local train, irrespective of the fact that you have taken a bath or not. The heat produced inside a train due to the mosh pit condition is enough to make anyone feel the heat of Rajasthan in any weather.

Entering or Exiting a local train is an extreme sport. You have to be an athlete of utmost fitness and training. It is not for the weak-hearted, you have to push through layers of human bodies to enter/exit the train. The fact that these trains stop only for a few seconds doesn't help either. There is no common courtesy of letting the train people exit first. Logic is TRAIN STOP, YOU SHOVE. Even though it is counter-intuitive and quite stupid to do, they don't care. Life really is a race.

Welcome to this year's 3453th Edition of Train Entering Shove-a-thon
But you can't blame them as when you live so far away from your desired place, local trains come to your rescue. It's very cheap and convenient for the common man. For example, for me, the train fare to the main city is Rs 20 whereas if I go by taxi, it is Rs 1500. So, of course, I'll choose local trains despite all its bio-hazard oddities.

Rating: 9/10 because as much as we like to hate it, no metro city will ever work without them

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