Inauguration of Thane-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus(Kurla) 5th 6th New Lines on April-10,2011
Pictures of the inauguration of the Thane - LTT 5th and 6th lines on 10th April 2011.
IRFCAians Vijay Aravamudhan, Arzan Kotval, Deep Soni, Tushar Dhake, Sriram S, Nikhil Karunakaran, and Rajendra Aklekar had caught snaps, covering the inauguration of the new 5th 6th lines between LTT and Thane. The snaps feature the 1st trains to arrive at LTT and 1st train to leave LTT, and snaps taken at Bhandup and Mulund featuring trains zipping past on new lines.
Empty rake of HW-LTT AC Superfast Exp on 6th line at Ghatkopar with WCAM3 21942 (Tushar Dhake)
12172 Haridwar - Lokmanya Tilak Terminus AC SuperFast Express towards its destination on the newly opened 6th line between LTT-Thane, captured at Ghatkoper from a slow EMU to Kalyan (Tushar Dhake)
Amidst Huge RPF, 5th 6th lines opens at Vikroli. (Tushar Dhake)
12812 Hatia-LTT Superfast Exp on 6th line at Vikroli (Tushar Dhake)
This is the Loop line between UP 6th and DN 5th new lines at Bhandup station. ON the left, you have the Chapra-LTT exp waiting patiently for clearance ahead. (Nikhil Karunakaran)
2nd train to Zip on the 5th DN line was the LTT-Darbhanga exp with WCAM3 at its helm. Captured at Bhandup station, near 6th line. (Nikhil Karunakaran)
Chappra - LTT exp enters Bhandup stn on the 6th UP line crawling, due to bunching of trains ahead towards LTT. This is very royally overtaken by speeding fast train to CSTM. (Nikhil Karunakaran)
Operators busy calling the control room, enquiring when the next train on 5th line will pass !!! ;-)Railfans Vijay Aravamudhan and NIkhil Karunakaran placed on the Mid loop line between 5th and 6th lines, whereas passengers from the Chapra-LTT exp have
What an eye full !
Ltt Gorakhpur Summer Special with a KYN WCAG-1# 21980 caught from a good angle at Thane station. (Arzan Kotval)
Recent comments
Dear Srinivas, Definitely NO. They are still under 150V DC. Its not possible to convert them as of now.
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2011 Apr 21 14:56:51 +0000
Are these two new lines electrified on 25 KV AC ??
Posted by S. Srinivas on 2011 Apr 21 14:10:52 +0000
Good coverage of the event. Thanks for sharing and will visit this place as soon as possible now.
Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2011 Apr 20 10:00:49 +0000