10 IN 1 NON STOP BACK TO BACK EXPRESS & FREIGHT TRAINS AT DUDHSAGAR WATERFALL & BRAGANZA GHAT

10 IN 1 NON STOP BACK TO BACK EXPRESS TRAINS & FREIGHT TRAINS AT DUDHSAGAR WATERFALL & BRAGANZA GHAT : INDIAN RAILWAYS

18048/Amaravati Express (PT)
अमरावती एक्सप्रेस अमरावती एक्सप्रेस
VSG/Vasco-da-Gama -- HWH/Howrah Junction

18048-Slip/Vasco Da Gama - Kacheguda Amaravati Express Slip
वास्को द गामा - काचिगुडा अमरावती लींक एक्सप्रेस वास्को द गामा - काचीगुडा अमरावती एक्सप्रेस स्लिप
VSG/Vasco-da-Gama -- KCG/Kacheguda

17022/Vasco Da Gama - Hyderabad (Weekly) Express
वास्को द गामा - हैद्राबाद सातोळे एक्सप्रेस वास्को-द-गामा - हैदराबाद (साप्ताहिक) एक्सप्रेस
VSG/Vasco-da-Gama -- HYB/Hyderabad Deccan Nampally

7420/Vasco-Da-Gama - Tirupati Express
वास्को-द-गामा - तिरुपती सातोळे एक्सप्रेस/వాస్కో డ గామ - తిరుపతి ఎక్స్‌ప్రెస్ वास्को-द-गामा - तिरुपति एक्सप्रेस
VSG/Vasco-da-Gama -- TPTY/Tirupati

Dudhsagar Falls (lit. 'Sea of Milk') is a four-tiered waterfall located on the Mandovi River in the Indian state of Goa. It is 60 km from Panaji by road and is located on the Belgaum–Vasco Da Gama rail route about 46 km east of Madgaon and 80 km south of Belgaum. Dudhsagar Falls is amongst India's tallest waterfalls with a height of 310 m (1017 feet) and an average width of 30 metres (100 feet).
The falls is located in the Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary and Mollem National Park among the Western Ghats. The waterfall is located in the state of Goa. The falls is a punctuation mark in the journey of the Mandovi River from the Western Ghats to Panjim where it meets the Arabian sea. The area is surrounded by deciduous forests with rich biodiversity. This waterfall is also known as Tambdi Surla to some of the local people. The falls are not particularly spectacular during the dry season but during the monsoon season, however, the falls are fed by rains and form a huge force of water.

Braganza Ghats are a stretch of hill section at the Goa – Karnataka 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 Goa - Karnataka 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.
The route earlier belonged to the South Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways but after the formation of South Western Railways. In 2003 it came under the Hubli division of South Western Railways.
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 Hubli WDG-4 locomotives. Hubli is the nearest loco shed has almost 250 of these locos.
There are quite a few passenger trains plying this section. 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.