TRIP BY RRC 977 KOTTARAKARA DELUXE

Date: 08-04-2013
Trip: adoor - bangalore
Bus: RRC 977 KTR DELUXE
Boarding: ADOOR
Departure: 2.45 PM ( 3.16PM)
Arrival: 7.10 AM (7:15AM-SILKBOARD)
Seat No: 6,7
Fare:  593*2

Decided to take kottarakara deluxe on my return trip . heard a lot of its superb driving from mclaren , this time I finally opted it and the return was wit me and mclaren  together . he boarded from thiruvalla

On 5/4 I went to kottarakara to book tickets .  boarded  RRE 880 from adoor  . it was aluva-tvm SF of alleppy depot . departed  adoor at 1148. It was on fire from the start.. continuous honking and ripping mc road. Just before I boarded , RAC742 TVM FP had left. On way it was overtaken easily. Driver showed no mercy to anyone.had a just miss overtaking it with a tipper on opposite side . completely on right hand side,. Super driving. I wa dropped at ktr at 12.13 , RAC 742  reached at 12.20.

Booked ticket and returned back by adoor FP , RSA 462 .  the depot is not allotted . maybe a new run.

On the  day of journey :

I reached adoor early . by 2.15. sreerag was there at adoor , met him , walked around here there , wandered the ksrtc stand seeing the breakdown buses and chit chatting.. at 2.40 I called up control room and enquired about the bus, they said the bus will leave in sometime. 

Finally bus entered stand at 3.13 . few passengers boarded and finally departed at 3.16 from adoor. both drivers were young . the bus moved slowly til the bypass road.. then it was a show. He throttled the bus to max.. it was on full speed.. the humps , the cars , no one was spared,  reached pandalam at 3.30 ,hardly 10 minutes from bypass exit to pandalam . saw thadathil garage at mc road , the Bangalore bus was getting ready there. Bus did not enter pandalam stand as there was no pick up .  there was lot traffic at pandalam.. took time to exit out the town . bus started to throttle again all way to chenganoor.  At tymes It was slow coz of incoming traffic and tough to overtook . but the overtakings were superb. 

Reached chengnoor stand at 3.50 ,( the actual tym for the bus to reach tvla.. ) . some 5 passengers boarded. But not all was to Bangalore. Got a call from mclaren about the location of bus . Left at 3.52.  crossed tvla post office at 4.07. from there till the stand there was heavy traffic . took 5 minutes to reach stand which is just 200 metres ahead.  4.12 at tvla ,  mclaren boarded .  only one person boarded at tvla . again startd to throttle. Reached changanashery stand  at 4.30 . there was pick up .. then left towards kottayam .  reaching kodimatha at 4.52 . there was a heavy block there before the bridge, a sharma non ac and tvla –chn kallada was stuck in the block including some SF,s and express. our driver din hav patience. He took right and moved front and stopped. Entering the bridge a car was stuck there. Was not starting.. me , mclaren and conductor , helped pushing the car to start. It was a hilarious scene there. Both drivers were laughing and we too had a great fun doin it.. the crew were very friendly .finally cleared out at 5.04 and we reached kottayam stand at 5.10 . there was a break for 10 mins. Airawat club class to bnglore and mysore bound rajahamsa was parked there. Departed at 5.20 and after all traffic snarls reached bakers junction at 5.31. weather has changed.. it was cloudy.. cool breeze at last after a boiling day 

Certain stretch towards ettumanur was literally slow. Then the bus started to rip the road.. was on right side most tymes overtakin all vehicles on way . reached ettumanur stand at 5.53. started raining heavily after that all way till muvatupuzha.. crossed kuruvillangad at 6.10.. we were sitting 2^nd row behind conductor and 2^nd driver. Was chatting a lot. They asked us about having dinner at perubavoor today than the usual alathur. And we said yes to it. reached perumbavor at 7.35 for dinner. Departed after dinner at 8.02. the 2^nd driver took over the wheels . reached angamaly at 8.30 . many thrissur and Palakkad bound passengers boarded there. Left after two minutes.. on way towards tcr , overtook kottayam deluxe with ease from left .

Passed chalakudy at 8.45 , tcr toll at 9.04 , took left to town . entered tcr stand at 9.25. there was block at the entrance. Peak time with lot buses entering and exit . departed at 9.33. reached mannuthy at 9.44.  crossed pattikad and block started at kuthiran mala at 10… took a holy 80 minutes to exit out the bridge past kuthiran . a worse situation . then no mercy on road , he was ripping left right  , full throttle  as thou saying  “move away rats , mamma comin with nitrous on :P” ..

 finally reached Palakkad at 12.05 . five minutes of fueling and we left at 12.10  , chandranagar bypass at 12.14 . garuda bound to tvm  crossed us at 12.30 , minutes later followed by the  ACC to tvm . crossed walayar at 12,37  . saw a green kallada B9R and white kallada parked at walayar

then had a sound sleep  all way till bangalore.. just remembered bus entering gandhipuram stand at 1.40 . reached salem stand at 3.50. exiting out of town and wen entered NH at the circle , the white kallada passed by , followed by a kpn Volvo.. minutes later an srs volvo overtook us . the bus was no were seen after that.. reached a toll past salem and then stopped for a break for driver change . again dozed off..  finally when woke , bus was at attibele toll at 6.45 , leavin the toll , entered ktr G4 . even that bus was late  . the bus din take BETL flyover . finally was dropped at silk board at 7.15

 My first trip on ktr deluxe and it was superb.  I was impressed with the bus and the drivers. Eagerly waiting for the new set of deluxe to arrive . 

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