Route Diverted - NRM
Three of Pune's budding Railfans - Jattin Bhavsar , Raj Bhavsar and Chaitanya Gokhale went on an indefatigable journey of the prevalent meter gauge trains in Rajasthan and Gujarat covering the overnight Ahmedabad-Udaipur Meter gauge and the old and dusty Mavli-Marwar MG Section en route to the NRM 2010 Convention. The trip began from Mumbai with the Shatabdi Express to Ahmedabad and continued with Ahmedabad-Udaipur MG, Udaipur to Mavli via road transport and then then again on very backward and unconnected Mavli-Marwar Meter gauge train. The journey of rails was continued by 6210 Mysore-Ajmer Exp to Ajmer from Marwar and then the Ajmer-New Delhi Shatabdi Express to Delhi. The album contains pictures taken in the above order of journey from Ahemedabad to Delhi.Images taken with due permission from CPRO-NWR.
Sabarmati YDM-4 # 6280 gets ready for hauling the 9944 Ahemedabad-Udaipur Express to Udaipur. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Our 9944 ADI-UDZ MG Express waits at Kharwa Chanda station somewhere just before udaipur. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
A wide view of Udaipur station as our MG train enters Udaipur. On the left are BG Platforms and on the right are MG Platforms. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
A dog sleeps peacefully on a winter morning at Udaipur.Seen in the back ground are two signals showing double red aspects (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Sun rises at Udaipur City as a diesel moves towards the dead end for reversal. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
A close up of the Ancient MG alignment from Udaipur towards Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Chittaurgarh bound passenger from a different view just about to enter Debari tunnel. Between udaipur to debari. (Jatin Bhavsar)
A wide view of Debari station which is the next station after udaipur towards Chittaurgarh. The train seen in picture is the udaipur-chittargarh passenger which is about the enter Debari hauled by a Ratlam diesel. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Ratlam WDM-2A # 18653 starts off from Debari with the passenger bound to Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Golden Chariot curves beautifully like a yellow snake after leaving Udaipur. (Jatin Bhavsar)
Here comes the surprise of the day. An unexpected Golden Chariot Express leaves Debari station hauled by a TKD WDM-3A. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Red Tuglakabad shows its piece of power as it smoothly accelerates Golden Chariot towards Chittaurgarh. Location :- Debari Outer towards Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The wait ends :- After waiting for the loco to come , finally our power for the day YDM-4 # 6651 comes and gets attached to the morning service to Marwar Jn from Mavli Jn. (Jatin Bhavsar)
The only crossing. The passenger from Marwar Junction to Mavli Junction crosses us at an Unknown station somewhere after Nathdwara. (Jatin Bhavsar)
The Mavli-Marwar MG train passes through many similar stations like this one of them being Kankroli. (Raj Bhavsar)
The ride down the ghats starts here. The train is just leaving Khambli ghat. (Jatin Bhavsar)
The unqite catch siding enroute. This was between Khambli Ghat and Goram Ghat. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Mavli-Marwar MG entering an old tunnel enroute the ghats. (Raj Bhavsar)
The Monkeys joyously accept the food thrown by the passengers and some notoriously take it away at goram ghat. (Raj Bhavsar)
Recent comments
Excellent album - two wonderful sections brilliantly documented for posterity. Great work, guys!
Posted by Manish on 2010 Jun 08 18:19:35 +0000
Whatever can be said has been said!
Very happy to see a fantastic pic of Gurgaon station taken at night!
That pic now is on my desktop on my office laptop for all my colleagues to see!
We have an "India Development...
Posted by Uttam Padukone on 2010 Jun 02 20:54:00 +0000
It really does not get any better than this ...amazing !!
Posted by Shikhar Parjan on 2010 Jun 02 14:11:17 +0000