Varun Singh recalls his mini-adventure that involved floating trains and jumping from a running train
As soon as I saw the sheets of rain pouring down outside my window, I decided to leave at 11 am, giving me plenty of time to make it to a 2 pm meeting at work. Or so I thought.
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The journey from my home in Kalyan to the office at Parel usually takes about an hour, but all my calculations were thrown out the window as soon as I reached Kalyan station and saw the empty tracks and crowded platforms.
I had already spent 40 minutes waiting when I hopped onto a long-distance train. Turns out, everyone else had the same idea — people had crammed themselves into every available inch. Then I realised the train was heading towards LTT, not CST. I knew it was a dangerous thing to do, but as the train slowed near Vidyavihar, I jumped off, crossed five tracks to get to the platform and waited for another train. By the time one came along, it was 1 pm.
At Kurla, the train slowed to an agonising crawl. It took 20 minutes just to cover a five-minute stretch because of extensive waterlogging. We couldn’t even see the tracks and it felt like the train was floating. By the time I got down at Byculla, it was already 2 pm. I desperately counted every passing minute as the cab moved through the mercifully empty roads. I finally reached office around 2.30 pm, late for the meeting but glad just to have made it.
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