The Continuing Menace of 9 Car and 12 Car

To all those people who wonder wot is 9 car and 12 car and to the few who think 9 car means a car vth 9 wheels and 12 car is a car with 12 wheels, The 2 I mentioned above specify the number of compartments in local train running from beach to tambaram or chengalpet. And it is not tht only yesterday 12 car trains started running. Let us trace a lil back to the past. In the era of Meter Gauge trains first 5 car trains were running. With increased crowd it turned to 8 car and gradually to 9. When the broad gauge slowly replaced meter gauge, and the amount of people travelling by train increased exponentially, the Southern Railways decide to experiment with 12 car trains from beach to tambaram during peak hours. The experiment was a huge success. The crowd was distributed among 12 compartments. It was all good going till a month back. For some god known reason, the railway authorities felt for any train running from beach to tambaram, the last compartment should be near the end of the platform. It was fine with 12 car. With 9 car, as the last compartment position was near the rear end of the platform, the first compartment was somewhere near the middle. So whenever 9 car train came, there started the dash. A look at the dash to get in first, we will all think as if they r running for olympic 100m gold. It created havoc. A easy question to mind is "Why board in first compartment?". Its bcoz every1 of us including me is lazy. Most overbridges are near the front end of the platform. And one main imp. thing is tht every station has a board which specifies the time of arrival of train along with whether its a 9 car or 12 car. People plz dont see it. Coz whn 9 car is specified 12 car wl come and 12 car is mentioned 9 car will. In a period where railways are trying to minimise accidents is this running race necessary? Why the hell the changes made by railways are so frequent? They just create panic :(

P.S : If a man selling some fishes or some other goods is also in the race with u to board the train, Please board the next train. Coz by the time he puts all his materials into train and boards it , train wud ve strtd.

A pleasant and lovable journey made into a fight for survival.