These photos were again taken in 1909 near Coimbatore on South Indian Railways. Another interesting way of getting the goods train and the passenger train into the station as described in caption under photo 1 which says "A mixed train goods and passengers finds the bank up to Coimbatore too steep, so the passengers are left behind, while the engine No. 133 slowly and with the greatest difficulty drags the 12 goods vehicles into the station a mile away. It later went back for the stranded passengers." I wonder why the preference to the goods over the passengers?
Date: 2009-11-12
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I suppose that the freight wagons are in the front part of the mixed train - next to the steam loco - and it would be a normal shunting process to bifurcate the train into two parts, the loco taking the first part consisting of the goods wagons to CBE...
I suppose that the freight wagons are in the front part of the mixed train - next to the steam loco - and it would be a normal shunting process to bifurcate the train into two parts, the loco taking the first part consisting of the goods wagons to CBE and then returning to the balance part of the train to haul it in too. If the passenger coaches were in the front, the priorities get reversed for the shunting process.
Posted by S. Srinivas on 2009 Nov 14 08:42:27 +0000