General IR Scenes : MG and NG
Glimpses for IR's fast fading Meter and Narrow Gauge sections
The famed Dhulghat Spiral, shining in the early morning Sun! This section is counting its last days, and is to be closed down for Gauge Conversion pretty soon. (adithyav)
After 20 mins long wait, early morning service to Ahmedabad Jn, 52903 Mahesana-ADI MG Passenger arrived at Kalol Junction station hauled by SBI YDM-4 #6306 crossed my 52910 ADIJ-Mahesana Jn. passenger. (Bhaveen Patel)
Bilimora bound 52002 WGI-BIM NG Passenger hauled by PRTN ZDM-5 #509 arrived at Anaval station. (Bhaveen Patel)
Lush greenery alongside shows central India received fair amount of rains this monsoon! Cute looking ZDM-4 brings in the Achalpur - Murtizapur NG train also known as Shakuntala passenger (Sriram SN)
A scene from Akola Junction which includes both Meter Gauge and Broad Gauge lines! (Ashwin Gandhi)
Ydm4 6507 busy in reversing back after been arrival with 15317 (a very limited edition Express train) the only express train that ruled on the Pilibhit-Section ever in history of Indian Railways , but just for Six months only (01 Jan 2016 to 16 June 2016)
17625 has been derated to shunting duties, but upgraded to run on bio-diesel. (Santulan Mahanta)
The first bio-diesel run locomotive of New Guwahati shed. In a press release the CPRO of NFR claimed NGC to have installed the third biodiesel fuelling point in Indian Railways' network after Tughlakabad and Itarsi (Santulan Mahanta)
The Akola bound passenger from Mhow slowly moves downhill through the ravine viaduct-2 between Patalpani and Kalakund. (Vivek Mishra)
The once extensive Narrow Gauge system that radiated from Nagpur has been relegated to a single line that runs till Nagbhir. Here, the evening service returning to Nagpur crosses the Maru river near Bhivapur. (Shashanka Nanda)
Trekked on this beautiful stretch in the Gir Wildlife Santuary. The location is a couple pf kilometers from the Sasan Gir railway station. This bridge still sees 4-5 passenger trains in a day. (Saptarshi)
YDM 4 6326 brings in the afternoon passenger into Sasan Gir Railway Station. The LP was nice enough to switch on the headlights for me :) (Saptarshi)
YDM-4 from Mhow and the Legendary Patalpani Waterfalls !!
YDM-4 from Mhow goes downhill to Kalakund, after finishing its banking duties and to perform further banking duties to the trains coming from Akola. (Krishna 20065)
Red Liveried MHOW YDM-4 leads the first Passenger from Mhow towards Khandwa. This is probably the new livery that the Shed has adopted, for a few locos can be seen painted in this livery. Location - Kalakund / KKD (Krishna 20065)
Beautiful looking 6591 after changing tracks coming back to Pilibhit yard.Only a week before closing of Glorious Izzatnagar-Pilibhit MG line. Beautiful Semaphore can be also seen at Pilibhit everywhere. (Abhishek Kashyap "trAinmAn")
IZN YDM4 Getting ready to haul 15308 Nainital Express from Aishbagh. (Mohitkumar Tandel)
YDM-4 Locomotive (GOC) and Metre Gauge Rail Bus preserved at Regional Rail Museum, Mysuru.
YDM-4, 6200 was the locomotive which did the honours of hauling the last passenger service between Mysuru and Chamarajanagar, before the Line was closed for...
Token exchange at Dhulghat (DGT) station caught to perfection! The morning 52974 AK - MHOW Fast Passenger was late by more than an hour at DGT and maintained the delay all the way up to Mhow. (Abhilash Triambak)
New tunnel under construction on Nagpur Chhindwara new line track between the stations of umranala Bhimalgondi now the kukrakhapa station is eliminated out from the new alignment
The length of this tunnel is 800 meters
This would be...
Two Different Liveries of Mhow YDM-4 locomotives. The Banker (Loco No. 6734) was sent down as the trailing loco towards Kalakund to perform banking duties for the next Up Train. The Livery on the Lead Loco i.e. the Red livery seems to be the New Livery a
A view of Asia's Only Narrow Gauge Junction's Yard. A glowing ZDM-4A stands with GM Special Coaches (painted in red) in Nainpur (NIR), while another ZDM-4A is cranked. (Krishna 20065)
Legendary 10001 Balaghat-Nainpur Satpura Express ready to depart from Balaghat Jn powered with ZDM 4A # 226 (Ammar Rizvi)