The 7th IRFCA convention. Kolkata 28th-29th January 2012.

From left Raghu Jayaraman(HYB),Francis Bosco(SBC),Naveen M Reddy,Ramki Arun(Both MAS),Apurva Bahadur(Pune) and Harish Kumar(MAS) (Vimalakar)

MAS Gang members from left - Suresh Babu,Ashwin Gandhi,Simon James,Colin Peter(SBC),Krishnakumar K & Sivakumar G onboard 12842 Coromandel Exp on the way to HWH to attend the Convention. (Vimalakar)

Rotary Sadan, the venue of the HWH Convention. (Vimalakar)

Chaitanya Gokhale enjoys the finger-licking delicious meal served during the convention. (Karan Desai)

Anamitra Ghatak seems prepared for his presentation on "Trains in Satyajit Ray's Movies" while Apurva Bahadur flusters around with the settings. (Karan Desai)

The banner inside the venue, in LHB Rajdhani color scheme. (Karan Desai)

The two doctors- Jitendra Mulky and Vrijilesh Rai, enjoy the delicious meal (Karan Desai)

The very interesting interview of Shri Sampathkumar, taken by Ashish Kuvelkar, gets recorded. (Karan Desai)

After all the running around, Bappa Pal catches forty winks during one of the breaks. (Karan Desai)

SBC Gang bidding for Mysore for hosting the 8th IRFCA Convention 2013.
L-R:Manish, Sishir, Pawan & Santosh (Avishek Basu)

ATLAS Man Samit Roychoudhury giving a presentation upon Kolkata's Tramways... (Avishek Basu)

Dr.Shirish Yande giving a presentation upon Pune Railway station.. (Avishek Basu)

Pushkar Joshi was awarded for reaching Convention venue after covering the maximum distance.
He had covered:
BDTS-JP-NDLS-GHY-JTTN-MXN-LEDO-DBRG-MLDT-Kolkata(Convention Venue)-MGS-CSTM. Total distance traveled by him was 7745 K.M.
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Manish and Sishir Jairam receiving the first prize in the Quiz competition from Mr.Soumitra Majumdar (Avishek Basu)

Ben Hur, Naveen Reddy and Raghu Jayaraman received the award for the Best Alum of the year from Dheeraj Sanghi.. (Avishek Basu)

Ashwin Rao receiving the award for Best Photo of the year from Jishnu Mukerji.. (Avishek Basu)

VSP receiving the award on behalf of Bharat Moro for the Best Trip Report of the year from S Sampathkumar... (Avishek Basu)

Our guest C.P.R.O. of SER Mr.Soumitra Majumdar sharing his experience being with us for a little while...he was there during the quiz session....after the session he told us that he didn't know the answers of many questions...he also said that IRFCA is a

The passion for railways at its peak.. The 2 hardcore railfans (From LtoR) Ishaan Wasu & Ajitesh Dubey taking a snap of Angul (ANGL) WAG-7 at Begampur Station,W.B (Dr.Dhawal Mavani)

During the field visit on 29th January, all the railfans posing in front of the Begampur Railway stn board.
From LtoR: Ishaan Wasu, Sagar Abhayankar, Ajitesh Dubey, Rajarshi Gupta, Vivian.M.Boye, Dr.Dhawal Mavani and Anindya Roy. (Dr.Dhawal Mavani)

Here are the chief guests...The first two motor men of India's first Metro Railway.These two motor men drove the inaugural run of Kolkata Metro Railway on 24th October 1984.From L-R: Mr.Tapan Nath & Mr.Sanjay Sil (Avishek Basu)

Mr.S Sampath Kumar felicitating the chief guests... (Avishek Basu)

Team A for Quiz final.
L-R: Ben Hur & V Anand (Avishek Basu)

Team B: Asish Kuhelkar & S Sampathkumar (Avishek Basu)

Team C: Manish & Shishir Jairam (Avishek Basu)

Team D: Apurva Bahadur & Pawan Koppa (Avishek Basu)

Sridhar Joshi conducting the Quiz Finals. (Avishek Basu)