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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

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....

Perched outside Ambala station, this NG loco (only on display, not use) harks back to a different era

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Plus its cutaway twin

A Narrow Gauge loco turntable, this time apparently in active use

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

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....

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....

Sir Leslie Wilson was the governor of Bombay(now called Mumbai), hence it was named after him. The first electrified section, IIRC, in India was around ~1930 in then Bombay - Poona....

National Rail Museum, Delhi. The image is ~2 years old and in the scorching summer sun, I never added/recorded the name/extra information about these old locos.

I am not sure if it’s on meter or Narrow Gauge. The image is ~2 years old and I neglected to note the specifications.

I took the image in 2016 with a shitty handycam, hence the poor quality....

Used by the British in pre Independence era, now kept as a showpiece in National Rail Museum, Delhi

Lying adjacent to the iconic Fairy Queen, this old engine tells the tale of an era long gone

This is the world’s oldest working steam loco still in operation. Taken onto tracks couple of times a year this is kept 70 kms westwards of Delhi, the Indian national capital

Now decommissioned of course, this stands as a relic outside a railway station as a fragment of the gone era

The NG diesel loco that hauled the Satpura Railway in central India (Gauge converted now), it now rests in a museum

Hi, I hope this is okay, I made some progress on a line art photobash to go with the scene I was describing and I was hoping to run it by you folks in case anything needs to change (scale, layout, etc) before I get into the detail work....