Odds and Ends

Date: 2003-02-22
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 592 items (1153 items total)
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New uniform of station staff. However, guards still continue to sport white and drivers have their blue uniforms. Looks good. Nagpur, April 2005. Alok Patel.

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Another shot of Maintenance/safety procedures. Q.C. Shop, Dadar Maintenance Yard, 4 Apr 05. Jai Narayanan.

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Maintenance Procedures to be followed by personnel, these procedures are tripple checked by quality control, I am told for presitigious trains of CR (ie) The Deccan Queen and 1063/64 Dadar Exp. Outside Quality Control Shop, Dadar Maintenance yard, 4 Apr 0

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A tribute to a retireing "Ghat Driver" on the side of prob his WCG-2. Karjat, 27 Mar 05. Jai Narayanan.

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A "SLR" that has been converted to a material van. Lonavla, 27 Mar 05. Jai Narayanan.

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Repair of a road under bridge is in progress under JAmmu Tawi Station yard as a shunter passes over it. Jammu. By Rajeev Shrivastava.

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Tractor on tracks at Yedukumeri station on Sakleshpur-Mangalore section. Taken by my friend's friend Pradeep. Yedukumeri, 03/06/2005. By Maheedhar.

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TKDs WDM-2 17903 with what looks like a roof mounted air con unit. The protrusions over the cabs are probably the vents. New Delhi, 16th March. By Akshay.

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Some WDM 3Ds seem to have AC cabs. A signalling lamp fitted outside can be a telltale sign of such a loco. This way, the driver doesn't need to open the window when the AC is on. Nagpur, March 2005. Alok Patel.

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The leading bogie from the other side. Nagpur, 27th February 2005. By Alok Patel.

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Bogie of the derailed WAG7 27394 from Erode. Its stuck between the two sets of rails. Nagpur, 27th February 2005. By Alok Patel.

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WAG7 27394 from Erode that had derailed at Nagpur yard. Nagpur, 27th February 2005. By Alok Patel.

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Railway Heritage indeed. This fishplate seems to be older than the line it has being used on! Incidentally, this is a BG fishplate bolted to BG rails that have been used on NG track! Even the steel channel sleepers are BG and have been cut into two and su

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A check rail is being fashioned out by reusing an old worn out rail and cutting part of its foot off. Nagpur, 8th March 2004. By Alok Patel.

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A rail fracture detected in time...saves a derailment report! The crack had propogated almost to the foot of the rail but was spotted in time and that section had just been turned over while the another rail was being fitted. This was particularly importa