General IR Scenes - Archive 1
Pictures uploaded till 2005. This is an archived album. No fresh material will be added.
The driver of the loco shown in the previous image (PUNE WDM-2 #18346) speaks through his wireless. Soon after this the horn blasted and the train (Unknown Passenger) left. Unknown, 07/12/2003. By Binai.K.Sankar.
Contrasted in blue and cream livery the LTT - Madgaon Jan Shatabdi Passes through Panvel on an early summer morning. Panvel (New Bombay), June 2002. By Saurabh Jha.
View of the isolated Ramakona station. Ramakona (Nagpur Chinddwara), November 2003. By Alok Patel.
Mumbai Pune Shatabdi Breezing Through Kanjur Marg (A Mumbai Suburb) - Photo By Saurabh Jha, Nov 2003.
Tuklakabad WDM-2 #16272 in a cream coloured Palace on Wheels livery. Photo by Avimanyu Pyne, June 2003.
All of you have seen red rajdhani livery WAP-4 locos with blue Air Brake rakes. Heres what it looks like the other way round. A sight not to be seen again alas. This is the Jnaneshwari Super Deluxe at Kalumna, an outer suburb of Nagpur. The Superdeluxe re
A picture of a loco hauling a train on one of the spectacular hilly and curvy sections of the Kirandul - Kottavalasa line. Photo by Sujeet Mishra, 2000.
At Manmad station - the WAP-1 #22060 later hauled the 2779 Goa Express in which we travelled to New Delhi. The green loco (WDM?) standing next to it is likely for the down Goa Express. Naga Gurumoorthy, Dec. 2004.
Barauni-New Delhi Vaishali Express running 7 hours late due to extreme fog. Aligarh, 2004-12-18. By Puneet Kumar.
A new passenger negotiates with TTE for a berth while on-board Rajdhani passengers prepare for a stretch after dinner. Kota, 2004-12-25. By Puneet Kumar.
Vaishali Express hauled by GZB WAP5 crawls towards New Delhi as visibility is reduced to barely 100 metres. Aligarh, 2004-12-18. By Puneet Kumar.
WAP-4 #22350 ; train 2860 up Geetanjali Exp ; supposed to be the first super fast train on CR. Nasik Road, 2004-03-02. By Sachin Buddhisagar.
WDM/2 17635 from ET is a fresh-paint job(?), with no shed markings or insignia up-front. It sports twin-beam lights as it changes points out of Nahur yard, heading a freight consist. Mulund, Mumbai, 7/24/2005. Sundar "nut".
Memories - The last train to operate on Vaccum Brakes: Alleppey-Dhanbad Exp leaves for it's long journey north behind AJJ WAM 4. The train has AB rake now. Ernakulam Jn, 2004-09-xx. Jimmy Jose.
Erode WDM 3A 14139 pushes a lone caboose into a by lane at Ernakulam Marshalling Yard. By Jimmy Jose.
Hard to beleive that this SLR could accomodate so many parcels. Parcels from Delhi being unloaded from Kerala Express at Ernakulam Jn. British had built SLR's to carry personal, or rather, checked in luggage of passengers. We now use them as parcel ser
Tribute to VB: A change over ceremony that occurs only a handfull of times in the whole of SR daily - AJJ WAM 4 21297 has just brought in the Dhanbad Alleppey Exp from Chennai to Ernakulam Jn. The coolie os getting in the cab to take out the drivers box
Tribute to VB: Yesterday of IR meets Tomorrow as the VB train and AB train cross side by side. Very lucky shot indeed. Ernakulam Jn, 2004-10-02. By Jimmy Jose.
Netravati Express departs ERS behind twin ERS and ED WDM 2's. The train is usually hauled by Erode WDM 2C but today there is a loco failure and the ERS WDM 2 is helping the ED WDM 2 behind in hauling the heavy 23 coach train. Mumbaikars, watch out tomor
For railfans interested in loco links - CBE-NZM Kongu Exp gets a Moula Ali WDM 2 from CBE to SC. The train waits with its power WDM 2 16333 at Coimbatore. 2005-07-08. Jimmy Jose.
Mad link - a collectors item for loco link fans. The ERS-Patna Exp is hauled by an ERS WDM 2 from ERS to MAS though the line is electrified. The loco travels a good 689 km through electrified territory. Why electrification when trains like this run wit
ERS is still confused on the road number of this loco. It's a transferred WDM 2C from ED, now redesignated as WDM 3A by ERS. During ED days, it was 17968, It's builder's plate says 18968. Now ERS has decided it is neither 17968 nor 18968. It is origin