A watercolour (courtesy Photoshop!) of the MG Vaishali Express leaving Sonepur circa 1980.#AUTH1#John lacey#AUTH2#

A hopelessly overcrowded NG train on the 2' 0" Gwalior lines approaches a station. Engine featured is a NDM-5, the first of which was christened 'CHINKARA' (a type of deer).#AUTH1#Vikas Chander#AUTH2#

A vanishing breed: a 4-wheeler TOHC class tanker car. Most of these are giving way to modern bogie stock. Almost all these 4 wheelers have been retrofitted with puny looking CBC couplers. Location Pune (Poona) circa 2002.,#AUTH1#Apurva Bahadur#AUTH2#

Guess who? A completely remodelled WAM-4 6P heads the Badnera - Amravati Passenger circa 2003. The cab had air conditioning as well, which has been taken off. One report said that the windshields had been very sloppily done. (circa 2003)#AUTH1#Alok Patel#

A rare bird, featured for the first time on showcase. Video capture of an old Mitsubishi-built WAM-3 performing shunting duties on the ER circa early 1980s. WAG-3s were identical machines. Note the clover Mitsubishi logo emblazoned on the side of the loco

Local colour: a group of Rajasthani women exchange a few words with the driver of a YP, probably to help them carry their firewood home. Note bundles of firewood already on the engine's running plate. Also note the old style lamp post. (circa 1982)#AUTH1#

A Jessops-built EMU skirts the Indrayani River near Kamshet as it heads towards Pune (Poona) as part of the Lonavla - Poona service. (circa Apr. 2002)#AUTH1#S. Shankar#AUTH2#

A new WAP-4 unit fitted with WAP-5 style large lookout windows rolls into Nagpur with the Tamil Nadu Express, circa 2003. Despite this improvement, lousy and mismatched cab ergonomics reportedly makes for a poor forward view and very uncomfortable driving

A car of the original MG Palace on Wheels, train of historic royal saloons at Agra, shot here at night. The train was replaced with a new ICF-built MG rake a couple of years later, and then subsequently with a BG rake in 1992.#AUTH1#John Lacey#AUTH2# #SIL

A WAM-4D 6P unit prepares to make way for a WDM-2 diesel at Renigunta for the diesel's onward journey with the Bombay Express which the WAM-4 has just brought in, circa 2002.#AUTH1#Apurva Bahadur#AUTH2#