In ladies' compartments of twelve coach trains
Recently, the few remaining platforms at Sealdah station serving nine-coach local trains were extended to comfortably station twelve-coaches. Hence, all local trains in the North-South line have now been converted into twelve-coach trains, and nine-coaches have basically become non-existent. At least that's what I get to experience every day. But how does this affect my life? When it comes to daily commute via local trains, people are aware that there are many existing problems. What often escapes them however is that solutions to those problems might create even more problems, in this case for example. Platforms with never ending concrete now feel like deserts. One has to walk, sprint, run till they reach the bogey carrying women, pardon, Ladies. This arises from the issue that ladies' compartments are only available at the two ends of the train, one in the front and one at the back. Any subway opening in the middle of a platform has no way of connecting the two ends of the ...
