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  W ell, finally we had an opportunity to travel by the recently introduced Vande Bharat. This express train runs from Kasargod in the northern end of Kerala to the State Capital Thiruvananthapuram in the south. However, ours was a  a short ride from Kozhikode to Thrissur completed in about an hour and 45 minutes.  Waiting for the Train On arrival at the station, we were told that the Vande Bharat would arrive on platform number 3. With the evening Sun blazing from the west, there was hardly any cover on this platform. The number of seats was also limited. Fortunately, the electronic information display provided the coach position. Once the train arrived, people queued up before the doors. Usually, in most trains, the seat numbers are displayed outside on top of the windows to help passengers board from the door closest to the location of the seat. However, this was missing in the Vande Bharat and we entered through the door at the other end of the coach and had to wade through passeng