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

After the tea break Trayambak Ojha is reading out the replies from the Live Stream of the Convention in the Face Book.. (Avishek Basu)

No one leaves the Golden Opportunity.
Railfan Anindya Roy utilized the tea break in the best way he could by asking a lot question to Mr.Sanjay Sil. (Avishek Basu)

Railfans and Rail persons were together...
Rail person sharing his experiences while railfns were swallowing it.. (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Tapan Nath showing some of his photos, which were taken in USSR. He had undergone a training period for running the Metro Railway in USSR.
L-R:Roopesh Kohad, Tapan Nath, Abhishek Acharya, Chirag Ganguly, V.M. Govind Krishnan, Aninduya Roy,...

Sridhar Joshi announcing the groups for Quiz Final before the tea break... (Avishek Basu)

During the tea break delegates had a great time chatting with these historical persons...
From L-R:Mr.Tapan Nath, Subhabrata Chatterjee and Raghabendra Rao. Chirag Ganguly can also be seen on the far left in a black t-shirt. (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Raghabendra Rao presenting about 'The Railway Strike of 1974'... (Avishek Basu)

One of the slide of the presentation by Raghabendra Rao... (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Buddhadeb Saha giving a presentation about the 'Railways in Northeast India(The Burma Connection)' (Avishek Basu)

One of the slide of the presentation presented by Mr.Saha. (Avishek Basu)

A power point presentation by Simon Darvill in his absentia recorded with his own voice. This presentation was about 'Industrial Railways in Kolkata' (Avishek Basu)

Some of the MAS gang members at the venue :

(L-R): Mr.Anand Krishnan, Mr. Ravi, BenHur, Raghu Jayaraman, Ramki, Harish Kumar, Ashwin Gandhi, Mr. Sridhar Joshi, me, Bose, Sivakumar and Sathya Narayanan (hands foleded). (Naveen)

All the updates and live video streams that you saw in Facebook page were courtesy of this man and Dr. Vrjilesh Rai :) Thanks to them :) (Naveen)

The Rotary Sadan Auditorium, venue of this year's convention at Kolkata :) (Naveen)

Mr.V Anand was sharing his thoughts about the topic of debate and declared the result as both the team as winner... (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Pendse giving us a short presentation about the MSTS... (Avishek Basu)

Judges of the debate busy discussing about the result..
L-R: Mr.Buddhedeb Saha and Mr.V Anand (Avishek Basu)

Team A busy discussing the topic among themselves.
Members of Team A are (L-R): Dr.Shirish Yande, Raghabendra Rao and Anamitra Ghatak. (Avishek Basu)

Samit Da, Mr.Saha and Mr.Anand explaining the rules and regulations to the participants of the debate.. (Avishek Basu)

Team B seems busy in arguments among themselves rather discussing the given topic.. :)
Member of Team B are (L-R): Ajit Rao, VSP and Ravi S (Avishek Basu)

Samit Da and Mr.Buddhadeb Saha asking for participants for the debate session... (Avishek Basu)

Prof.G Raghuram presenting about The Railway Modernisation Committee.. (Avishek Basu)

During the interaction session delegates were busy discussing among selves..
From L-R: Bappa Pal, Dr.Jitendra Mulky, Apurva Bahadur, Jayakar Sunkara (Avishek Basu)

Railfan Abhishek Acharya sharing his experiences about his trip in Bangladesh Railways... (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Giriraj Bissa was presenting about the new system in IR's reservation system.. (Avishek Basu)

Mr.Trayambak Ojha was very busy doing the Live Streaming of the Convention....this has happened for the first time in the history of IRFCA Convention...Thanks to Dr.Vrijilesh Rai and Trayambak Ojha... (Avishek Basu)

Delegates like Chaitanya Gokhle and organiser Samit were enjoying the Interview with a loco pilot..while Mr.Lalam was capturing the moment in his camera... (Avishek Basu)