trains

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

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...

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.

The countries with the devolved private rail systems continue to heal.

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.

Always love Alan’s takes on American Rail

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