Black Diamond Double Decker Train. The Shortest Route between Howrah Jn and Dhanbad Jn is 13 km 5 shorter. An early Edison film showing the Black Diamond Express in the Lehigh Valley NY in 1903.
Charing Cross London and Dartford Kent England. It was to have been the answer to overcrowded trains in the late 1940s. The carrier declares that it conducts a thorough sanitation cleaning and disinfection of all common areas on its trains including surfaces seats handles windows tables luggage compartments bathrooms and operator cabins.
People in West Bengal had the experience of travelling in double-decker coaches when two such coaches ran between Howrah and industrial-township Durgapur as part of the Black Diamond.
Rake maintained by ECREast Central Railway Zone. A pair of Lehigh Valley PA-1s race westbound through Clark Township New Jersey with train 9 the Black Diamond on May 12 1955. The Howrah Dhanbad AC Double Decker Express was the first of its type to be introduced. It was accommodated with latest stainless steel LHB Coaches manufactured at Kapurthala Coach Factory.
