Unveiling National Rail Museum New Delhi 2015

After 38 years of long establishment, National Rail Museum is undergoing a massive overhauling. From last one year with active patronage from Railway Board and herculean efforts of nearly 1200 finest workers from 30 Railway workshops along with allied contractors all its priceless outdoor exhibits are being restored to their original signing glory. Metal works, wood works (even with expensive teak or deodar wood) was carried out, original fittings as restored or imitated, durable Auto-coat PU paint is applied with proper surface finish.
Dear member as a proud chief restorer of the project let me share few results. Hope you will like it

PS : Indoor Gallery, elevated canteen, Shed on the outdoor exhibits, garden scale rail, miniature steam and diesel train (1:8 and 1: 22 scale) is expected in this year.

Date: 2015-02-15
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 72 items
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HP-31412: Restored by Ajmer Workshop. Apart from regular restoration, lights and whistle are made functional. CRB Award winner for best restored exhibit in Meter Gauge/Narrow Gauge Steam loco catagory (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 871
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X-37385:- Restored by Coonoor Workshop. Apart from regular restoration, lights and whistle are made functional. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 801
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BKS Coach-1445:- Restored by Bikaner Workshop. Complete Restoration. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 833
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BKS Coach-1445:- Restored by Bikaner Workshop. Complete Restoration. Note porous wall for airflow as third class coach does not had electric fan facilities. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 783
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WCP1: Restored by Kalyan Electric Loco Shed. Apart from usual restoration, Headlamps pantograph horns are restored. Cab equipment are restored and labeled. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 838
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WCG1: Restored by Kalyan Electric Loco Shed. Apart from usual restoration, Headlamps pantograph horns are restored. Cab equipment are restored and labeled. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 858
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MLR 739: Restored by NRM (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 837
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MLR Coach 852 & 812: Restored by NRM (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 892
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DHR ET 119: Restored by NRM (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 863
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DHR Loco B 777:Restored by NRM (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 811
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Hasang : Restored by NRM. Apart from usual restoration, headlamps, whistles restored, smoke emitter installed. Placed in front of a miniature platform (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 851
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Miniature platform for Hasang. Developed by Delhi Division - Northern Railway (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 739
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WDM4 18000: Restored by NRM. Cab equipments are being restored (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 879
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WDM1 17000:Restored by NRM. Cab equipments and few missing components are being restored currently. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 900
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Sentinel 6273: Restored by Amritsar Workshop. part from regular restoration, lights and whistle are made functional. (Subhabrata)

Date: 2015-02-16
Owner: Subhabrata Chatterjee
Views: 945
Comments
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What a fantastic restoration effort. Hats off to all the 1200 workers and the chief who overlooked this herculean task. Feels heartening to see that so much interest is being taken to restore to the minutest detail possible. Great job Shubhabrata and team!
Posted by Pawan Koppa on 2015 Mar 03 10:06:37 +0000
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I am overwhelmed and speechless with such encouraging response from you. Thanks a lot.

Shirish: We tried to maintain liveries from archival records, oldest available photos and in consultation with various railfans and historians across the...
Posted by Gallery Administrator on 2015 Feb 24 08:21:05 +0000
A great group of pictures. I do like the before and after views.
The restoration work is excellent and was much needed. Thanks to the many people involved
Posted by David Churchill on 2015 Feb 23 09:39:02 +0000
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