General IR Scenes Archive - 3

The station master of Walha finds some free time from duty to spend precious little moments with his children. ()

The sun has just set, the headlights are on and the KYN WCAG1# 21979 takes the cakewalk load of 47 oil tanker wagons with utmost ease towards JNPT. Venue is Ulhas Bridge. (Arzan Kotval)

Seems that the Milk Cans, People on roof top and Commuters are having a good time hanging from the doors and windows of an MEMU bound to Aligarh from Delhi.Little they realised they are risking their lives.Shot taken at Dadri (Vishal Khare).

On a beautiful, warm and golden summer morning, the TPTY-SC Narayandri Express led by KJM WDP-4 20056 negotiates a 1:100 gradient and some sharp curves at Ghatkesar. (Bharath)

The UP and DOWN EMU's meet each other at Anand Vihar. (Akshay)

Panning shot of EMU going towards Lonavala (Jattin Bhavsar)

The cute looking Matheran Neral toy train descending the ghats , all along its way to Neral. (Ashwin Rao)

Fast Forward (Prem Anandh P)

2781 Mysore-Nizamuddin Swarna Jayanti express crossing a viaduct a km.34 on Shindawane-Ambale stretch.It was a 20 coach load with 4 parcel vanss and 1 inspection car headed by twin gooty WDG3a. (Apoorva Karlekar)

EMU towards Lonavala cruising. Location near Talegaon. (Jattin Bhavsar)

Howrah bound Geetanjali express takes a sharp bend on the outskirts of Nasik Road. (Anish Niranjan)

Godan express rushes past towards Igatpuri negotiating the gradients & tall viaducts of Thull ghat. (Anish Niranjan)

A local service waits for the signal to start from Moradabad Jn. The semaphores and the signal cabin - long serving symbols of IR will soon be consigned to the dustbins of history. ()

A thick black cloud of smoke erupts from the ALCO as it heads towards Pune with the Nagercoil Exp in tow. ()

It can't get better than this for a roller coaster ride on board!!Pic taken near Gubbi on the SBC-UBL Line. (Shishir Jairam)

On the morning of Kartik Purnima (an auspicious day for Hindus), hundreds of pilgrims line up expectantly as a local passenger pulls into Kachhwa Road station. The pilgrims are headed towards Allahabad to take a dip in the holy Ganga on this festival. The

The cabin at Kharwa Chanda ()

Surat-Virar passenger negotiating a caution order outside Saphale (Roy Skaria)

Twin WDG4's haul a fully loaded BOXN rake towards Cstle Rock thru the Dudhsagar Bridge. Seen in the background is the famous Dudhsagar falls ()

The three chief characteristics of a popular NR train - milk cans, door hangers and roof riders.

A typical IR station atmosphere - train pulling in, pax on train waiting to jump off, pax on the platform waiting to jump in and eager vendors trying to sell much as they can in 2 minutes.

The afternoon passenger snaking its way out of the Shindawane rock cuttings with a dead loco trailing behind the leader. ()

Trying to see thru tunnels as far as possible. Location Nagnath Lane (Jattin Bhavsar)

Scarlet red and with newly added rear view mirror, LGD's WAP-4 22231 charges up the grade with the Delhi bound AP Express in tow. (Bharath)

Future Loco Pilot ?!
Spotted this young man near Edappalli Station, Ernakulam..
Biju Bhasker (Biju Bhasker)

A Gonda WDM2B #16725 with BCN rake on the outskirts of Sitapur station.Picture taken in Feb 2008. ()

A nice pattern of tracks found inside Ennore Port Trust. ()