Station Scenes

Amazingly neat, clean looking frontal view of Necklace Road station from Necklace road, reflection adding more beauty to the photo, Hyderabad

B&W slide of Sonpur (Sonepur?, Junction?): What may have been then the world's longest platform, showing its height relative to mg wagons. I was standing on the extension at one end, which was quite low. The main central section was raised. Fri 1977

Jaipur Junction. (Date not provided.) By Bansri.

A view of the ceiling at a platform at Jaipur. (Date not provided.) By Bansri.

Purulia - platform 3 Adra end with view of an inspection car. - Abhijeet Trivedi.

Purulia station from over bridge - Adra end. - Abhijeet Trivedi.

Purulia station from over bridge - Tatanagar end. - Abhijeet Trivedi.

The MG side of Agra Fort has now fallen silent as all the action has shifted to the BG side pending guage conversion.

What was once a bustling MG terminus is now a dumping ground full of stagnant water and piles of concrete sleepers. The Jama Masjid of Agra can be seen in the background.

Commuters wait for the BG passenger to Kota while some homeless people sleep on the deserted MG platforms at Agra Fort.

The New Delhi trip shed in the background with an impressive array of electric powers. In the foreground, workers from the parcel shed struggle with their loads.

YDM-4 #6291 waits for departure with the Salem -

View of the rake yard from the pedestrian bridge in Bangalore City station. Naga Gurumoorthy, May 2005.

What a strange rake this train has. It has more Parcel Vans than other coaches. On this day, it had 7 Parcel Vans, 5 General, 3 Sleepers, 1 3A and 2 GS

Where else could you find such a combo - ERS WDM 3A 18755 is coupled with the flat faced WDM 3A 14049 as the twins wait to haul the Venad Express to TVC

The 235 meter tall Pitampura Tower looms large over DMRC's Netaji Subhash Place station as a Metro to Rithala heads out.

Two trains one platform!!! As rail traffic came to a grinding halt on Jan 7th due to the Bandh, the BBS-HWH Janshatabdi and the BBS-VSKP Intercity wait back-to-back on the same plafform, unsure of their fate. They were cancelled for the day after a wait o

The WAG7 of SC station..they cant afford a failure...

Kaveri Express has arrived at Mysore behind Krishnarajapuram WDM-3D #11104. 31 Dec 2005, Anu Sathyan.

The whole rake of Uttar Sampark Kranti Express and view of Udhampur station and the beautiful mountains. Varun Mehta, Jan. 2006.

Aryankavu trip: Tirunelveli-Quilon express at Tenkasi. We got down here to view Courtallam and five falls. 2005-12-03, Maheedhar.

A bunch of coolies awaiting the arrival of the down Sealdah Rajdhani Express, Sealdah, WB, 2006-01-15.

New livery on trial on an EMU rake. Although I am not fond of the blue, the yellow whiskers on front look nice! Sealdah, WB, 2006-01-15.

A couple of EMUs await departure at the busy Sealdah North station, WB, 2006-01-15.

Rake compositions at Pune. The 6506/6508/6510 group of trains seems to be the longest at Pune with 22 coaches. No 24 coach trains at Pune so far.

OHE Jungle??? A poor little Diesel loco rests under a catenery jungle!!!

Chronology of events at SDAH.