General IR Scenes : MG and NG

Glimpses for IR's fast fading Meter and Narrow Gauge sections

Date: 2018-12-01
Owner: Shashanka Nanda
Size: 125 items
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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)

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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)

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Bilimora bound 52002 WGI-BIM NG Passenger hauled by PRTN ZDM-5 #509 arrived at Anaval station. (Bhaveen Patel)

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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)

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Akola bound passenger arriving at Patsul railway station! (Ashwin Gandhi)

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A scene from Akola Junction which includes both Meter Gauge and Broad Gauge lines! (Ashwin Gandhi)

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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)

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Ruhelkhand exp through the canal at OEL (Dennis Jacob Mathew)

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IZN YDM-4 6464 with Tikunia Aishbah Passenger (dennis jacob)

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17625 has been derated to shunting duties, but upgraded to run on bio-diesel. (Santulan Mahanta)

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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)

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The Akola bound passenger from Mhow slowly moves downhill through the ravine viaduct-2 between Patalpani and Kalakund. (Vivek Mishra)

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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)

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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)

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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)