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Ambala station in North India has two abandoned stationery locos for visitors to glance: a NG and this MG one. Both are remnants of past era. Whilst NG and MG tracks do exist in India, they are in very limited area and usually Unesco Heritage Sites....
A YG class (Y refers to Meter Gauge classification in India) steam loco standing outside the north eastern city of Guwahati.
Crossposted from lemmy.world/post/42148733
The countries with the devolved private rail systems continue to heal.
Perched outside Ambala station, this NG loco (only on display, not use) harks back to a different era
Plus its cutaway twin
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Barog is a Narrow gauge station lying on Kalka - Shimla rail Link, India. It is perhaps the most picturesque station on that route with it’s curving platforms coming out from a tunnel
A Narrow Gauge loco turntable, this time apparently in active use
This is an active railway station(though not the main) lying in the Indian city of Allahabad. Ironically, despite being empty as far as the eyes can see, this city saw the world’s largest congregation of humans in the form of Kumbha in the month of January....
KSR = Kalka Shimla Railway. ZDM = Z stands for Narrow Gauge in Indian Railway terminology, D for diesel haulage and M means the loco was meant both for freight and passenger trains [though freight don’t run on this section]....
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/54529074...
Perched outside Indian city of Allahabad/Prayagraj, this out of commissioned loco harks back to the past ( Unless I literally jumped into the shrubs, there was no way to get a frontal image)
Final image from my collection of Rail Museum, Delhi. I didn’t knew the Metadata of the associated image since I took them 2+ years ago (read:details), so had to look up on Arts and Culture.
Officially called CSMT, it was originally Bombay VT with VT = Victoria Terminus. Old Timers might still refer by the later name. It is possibly the single most grandest train station in India. This image does not do justice to it but I could not clock in a proper one....
MG once almost comprising a third of India’s railways, is now fast becoming an ancient relic with barely a few heritage routes surviving. Most MG routes were diesel based here with few exceptions. This loco belongs to the latter subgroup.
Standing in the scorching sun, just me and the loco....
