Allahabad Transportation

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This is the main city train station. I arrived here on a very slow train from Lucknow. The journey took 6 hours to do just the 200km (120 miles) not helped by stopping at 2 stations for half-an-hour at each, the last one just 10km away from Allahabad itself. As with all stations in India, there's a lot of people moving around and also standing in the queues waiting to be served for reserving onward trains. At the booking office on the northern side I was told to stand at a counter where the only English word was "SUPERVISOR". I got served within 5 minutes of waiting, which was good! I took an early morning train out of Allahabad to Varanasi (No.2562) which took about 3 hours. I eventually found the train after being told it was on platform 8 and assumed it was over the bridge but the platforms only went up to number 7! I then enquired again and was told that it was at the end of platform 1 - makes sense!