General IR Scenes Archive - 3

The break of dawn at Asaoti. The weather was brilliant with cloudy skies, light drizzle, and cool winds! Perfect conditions for Railfanning but not for railway photography!A tiger face WAG 7 with its load lurks on the 3rd line ready to depart while a TK

ED WAP4 22568 hauls the Brindavan express as it crosses a twin WAG5 headed BOXN coal rake. You can see the flashers on the loco.

The guardian of Sarojni Nagar station (SOJ) does his duties as the night grows darker. The lights are of an approaching WAP4 . Vivek Mathur

WDM 2A #17767 moving in to take the charge of Trivandrum Central-Chennai Egmore Ananthapuri Express. Nagercoil Junction. Biju Bhasker

Pushpak WDP-3A # 15531 Tuglakabad shed underpasses the metro bridge at Pragati maidan. (Pranav Nath)

Upper Quadrant Semaphores in line at Outer of Kirloskarwadi station on Pune - Miraj Route. Soon these will be put out of service, as the work for MACL signals is in full swing. By Hrishikesh Moghe

Tondiarpet WDM 2A #18319 bringing in Nagercoil Junction-Trivandrum Central Passenger to Kulitturai Station.Biju Bhasker

Night Attack: The August Kranti Rajdhani blasts past a deserted Umroli in the darkness, lighting up its vital statistics for us railfans!

The WAM-4 hauling ADA-KGP passenger in a foggy morning.-Anurag Ghosh,Kolkata

AJJ WAM-4 21266 hauls the Dhanbad bound express train.

The Karnataka Sampark Kranti tackles the rather sharps bends of the Gwalior-Jhansi section. This is one of the crossover points near Datia as the line going towards Jhansi goes over the down line. The bridge seems to be a speedbreaker! (Vivek Mathur)

The second crossing of the day. A late running Kachiguda - Yesvantpur Exp. with GY WDM3A 18796R curves into MKL station while the Yesvantpur - Guntur passenger waits with GTL WDM3A 18794R Picture by Abhijnan Ray. 15-Mar-2008

Another image I wanted to capture for a long time - flag exchange between the SM and the loco pilot. ED WDM-2 #17363 hauls the Mumbai-Nagercoil express via MKL. 2008-03-15.

Like the hood of a serpent ready to rise and strike, KJM WDP-4 #20036 with the Prashanthi Express bound to Bangalore slithers into Makalidurga. 2008-03-15. (Pawan Koppa)

The Hindupur - SBC passenger curves into the loop line at MKL with a KJM WDM3A # 17930. This was the first of the two crossings that we witnessed at MKL today. From the other side came GTL twins WDM2A # 17689 and 16966 with a BCCN rake. Picture by Abhijna

The Udyan gleams in the morning sun light with WDP4 20043 in charge. Picture by Abhijnan Ray. 15-Mar-2008

Pune WDM 2 # 19757R hauls a southbound parcel rake at Pophlaj. The track on the left is the end of the scissor crossing loop. More details of the unique crossing arrangement on this...

The lone ranger of IR

The gate man at NFC Nagar LC (near Ghatkesar) is all attention as the SC-Guwahati comes rumbling up the grade.

People queuing up for boarding Science Express. One can see queue extending well beyond the huge eculyptus trees, Bangalore Cantonment

Diesel's Rule!! Well the Marrikuppam passenger pulls into Oorgaum station and recieves a standing pole oation on its arrival.This is the BWT-KGF line mainly built to facilitate the mines of the yesteryears.Several services run right from morning till even

The passenger bound for Miraj departs Jejuri amidst the green flag exchange... see carefully the third green flag is also visible (Vivek)

Something's going to happen,
I expect that with glee,
There is that glow in my heart,
When I see, The Fire..
The Fire in his Hand. (Vivek)

2779 Vasco-Nizamuddin Goa Express speeding towards Manmad. The hill in the background is Gorkshanath hill near Ankai Kila. 2008-02-08. (Lalam)

A Wallpaper for MG Lovers..Ahmedabad to Udaipur has many such picture post-cards, just waiting to be collected into the fond pages of memory..Dated - 6th February 2008 - ADI - UDZ Section Photo by Saurab Basu

Sunset at Casercod Station enroute from Vasco to Londa (Logasundaram.S)