Vasco Da Gama To Velankanni ( Via Dudhsagar Waterfalls ) : Full Journey : 17315 VSG - VLNK Express

VASCO DA GAMA (GOA) TO VELANKANNI (TAMIL NADU) VIA DUDHSAGAR WATERFALL : FULL TRAIN JOURNEY : 17315 VASCO DA GAMA - VELANKANNI WEEKLY EXPRESS : LOCOMOTIVE CHANGE FROM KJM WDP4 TO RPM WAP7 AT TIRUCHCHIRAPPALLI JUNCTION : KULEM TO CASTLE ROCK BRAGANZA GHAT FULL COVERAGE : INDIAN RAILWAYS

17315/Vasco-Da-Gama - Velankanni Weekly Express
वास्को-द-गामा - वेलांकन्नि साप्ताहिक एक्सप्रेस
VSG/Vasco-da-Gama -- VLNK/Velankanni

Vasco Velankanni weekly Express is an Express rail operated by the Indian Railways connecting Vasco da Gama in Goa with Velankanni via Madgaon, Hubli Junction, Yesvantpur, Salem Junction, Karur Junction, Tiruchirappalli Junction, Thanjavur Junction, Thiruvarur Junction and Nagapattinam Junction. train take 30 hrs 15 min to complete the entire journey. Total Distance Covered is 1268 km at an average Speed of 42 km/h.
The train has standard ICF rakes with max speed of 110 kmph.
1 AC II Tier
6 AC III Tier
8 Sleeper Coaches
4 General
2 Second-class Luggage/parcel van

Braganza Ghats are a stretch of hill section at the Karnataka – Goa border. This 26 km ghat section rail road connects coastal Goa to the hinterlands of Karnataka and other parts. It has three stations en route in the ghats – Caranzol, Doodhsagar and Sonaulim.
The Braganza Ghat section is located on the Karnataka-Goa border in the Western Ghats. It starts from Castle rock in Karnataka and ends up at Kulem in Goa. Prior to the Konkan Railways this was the only way one could have reached Goa via rail.
The 26 km section of ghats starts at Castle Rock in Karnataka and ends at Kulem in Goa and has 3 stations en route - Caranzol, Doodhsagar and Sonalium.
Both the uphill as well as the downhill trains have commercial halts at Castle Rock and Kulem which also serve as the stations for attachment and detachment of brakes. But, the trains do not have commercial halts at the three en route stations.
While descending the ghats, a train - whether passenger or freight - has to stop at all the 3 stations for mandatory brake tests; whereas, the uphill trains are not required to halt unless there is a crossing.
Its fame is mostly derived from the waterfalls which slide down gracefully in its midst, somewhere in the middle of the ghat with the name Dudhsagar Falls or Sea of Milk.It is one of the most beautiful falls in all of India. The speciality of this location is it is only connected by the railroad. The panorama offer high waterfall as a backdrop to the trains passing right in front of it.
Tens of thousands of tons of freight move up and down the ghat section. The Braganza Ghat Section is one of the toughest ghat sections in Indian Railways. The ruling gradient here is 1 in 37 which requires the use of bankers. Earlier the Gooty shed's WDM-3A and WDG-3A class locomotives were used and now the WDG-4 locomotives. Hubli is the nearest loco shed has almost 250 of these locos.
Freight consists mostly of iron ore being transported from the interior regions of Karnataka to the ports for export. In return the rakes bring in coal, fertilizers and the like.

Vasco da Gama (station code: VSG) is a railway station serving the town of Vasco da Gama in Goa, India. The station was part of Marmagao and Vasco metre-gauge railway line. This was main rail in the state until Konkan Railway was started in 1998. It comes under the jurisdiction of the Hubli division of the South Western Railway Zone.

Velankanni railway station is a terminal station in Velankanni town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
It belongs to the Tiruchirappalli railway division of the Southern Railway zone in Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu. The station code is VLNK.
It lies at the end of a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long Nagapattinam–Velankanni broad-gauge line. The foundation stone of the line was laid in 1999 and it was completed in 2010 at a cost of ₹48 crore (US$6.0 million). The station belongs to the Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone.