Station Scenes

A train approaching Kumbakonam station. Mid-1980s. Photo by Adam Akbar.

Platform ticket vending machine at Chennai Central, 5 October 2003. Photo by Hendrik Ploeger

An evening train pulls into Thiruvarur Jn. Photo by Adam Akbar, mid-1980s.

Tracks at SSPN station. Photo by Rajan Joshi, Aug. 2002.

Nilgiri passenger in the station. Coonoor Railway station in 1998. Photos by ken

Points changing lever, on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, near Coonoor Railway station. Photo by Ken, 1998.

The Delhi Rewari Passenger with its famous loads of milk cans hanging outside the windows. 2003. By Vikas Singh.

The Delhi-Rewari Passenger at Garhi station

SBC-bound Island Express leaving Trichur Station. Trichur, circa 1986. By Ajith Unnikrishnan.

A PUNE - LNL local ready to depart, at Pune station. Pune, 2003-12-07. By Binai K. Sankar.

WDG-2 has a race with the DMU! BYPL, Jan 2004-01-15. By Bharath Narayan.

Pondicherry-gauge conversion work. Pondicherry looking towards the jetty, 2004-01-05. By Wp7713.

Pondicherry-gauge conversion 2. Pondicherry station, 2004-01-05. By Wp7713.

Back to the future… If the wires were not there, this would've been 1950!! Mambalam (Chennai), 2004-01-18. By Gautam P (gautammmmm).

Basmat station on Purna - Ajmer line (metre gauge.) Basmat, 2003-12-13. By Sachin Balwatkar.

The IR buffers serve livestock and rolling stock alike, with an MGS WAP-(1 or 4?) and the NG diesel loco shed in the background. Kalka, 2003-09-13. By Cornelius Sandhu (sukhindersingh2003@yahoo.com).

[For Showcase] The assistant climbs on top to check the radiator level early one morning at Madgaon station. Madgaon, 2003-12-26. By Naveen Jain.

[For Showcase] The out-going Amravati Express (Vasco - Vijaywada) lets out a heart-shaped smoke cloud. Madgaon, 2003-12-26. By Naveen Jain.

Circa 2004 ,A dismembered steamer which has gone to the dogs (cows). Wankaner, 2004-01-14. By AVIMANYU PYNE.

Arival of Rajahmundry - Bhimavaram Passenger (D139). Lakshminarayanapuram, 2003-11. By Mrs. Ratnam P.

DEMU service Rajahmundry - Bhimavaram Passenger (D139) awaiting departure. Lakshminarayanapuram, 2003-11. By Mrs. Ratnam P.

The waiting crowd surges forward as the Delhi Pass enters Rewari. Rewari Jn, 2004-02-13. By Mohan Bhuyan.

YDM-4 #6599 arrives at Agra Fort station, passing the Mosque. Agra Fort station, 2004-02-21. By Paul Molyneux-Berry.

WDM-3A #17382 belonging to the Jhansi loco shed (I think it is jhansi shed) brought the 'Palace on Wheels' into Jaisalmer on a very cold foggy January morning at around 9:30 AM. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, 2003-01-11. By Nikhil Ganu.

The time was about 1000 hrs. Could this colourful train be Jhelum? Bhopal, 2003-12-28. By Udit Patidar.

MS - BZA Jan Shat lying in wait for the starter. Poochi Venkat, Bharat Moro and I were to go upto NLR to meet “Storm” Shanx and PVS. MS, 2004-04-03. By Gautam.

MS - BZA Jan Shat passes thru Park Town station in Chennai that fine April morning. Park Town, 2004-04-03. By Gautam.