Leaving Delhi

We left the hotel this evening after having a very Indian meal at Pizza Hut – yes I know – but everyone fancied Pizza. After cramming 7 of us into 2 taxi's and piling bags on the roof rack and tying them on with apiece of sizal string somehow they made it to the Train station. We arrived there about 1 hour early and went to find our train.
It was huge over 25 carriages long so it took nearly 15 minutes to find our AC3 carriage. The we had to find our seats/bunks . Each carriage in AC3 seats 64 people. 3 facing 3 seats and also a row of bunks down one side which are 2 high. We managed to swap with a few people and got 4 of us together the other 3 were in the next carriage up. The bunks weren't too bad and surprisingly the train ride was very smooth. Early in the journey there were people constantly coming through with water and food from the Pantry Car. Amusingly the food was all labeled as 'Meals-on-Wheels'; not the same sort as we get back home though. Soon after, things quietened down as people bedded down for the night. Even though we were in an AC section (Air Conditioned) it was still warm and difficult to sleep. At around 5am we pulled in to a station and stayed there for ages, by this point I had given up trying to sleep and wandered down to the end of the train to watch out of the window, what surprised me was the door was still open and you could happily lean out of the door to see where we were hurtling along to.