Wankaner / Morbi in 1997 and in 1999
By Lars-Åke Holst
Northbound train is passing the bridge just outside Wankaner. The bridge is here under reconstruction for the planned conversion to broad-gauge. 1999-10-24.
Two small boys is standing beside YG 3261 at the Wankaner yard in the morning 1999-10-29.
Nice picture with 3 MG locos under steam at Morbi Jcn.
Southbound Fast Pass 413 behind YG 3360 is taking on board passenger at Nazarbagh station 1999-10-26.
Another picture opf YG 3360 waiting with a 3-coach passenger train on track 2 at Morbi 1999-10-26.
YG 3360 is waiting for departure from Morbi while children is collecting coal between the rails on track No 1.
Dangerous playground for a little girl on the tracks behind YP 2825 at Morbi station 1999-10-26.
YG 3360 arrived Morbi late evening 1999-10-23 from Maliya Miyana and is waiting for departure next morning with a short passenger train to Wankaner.
YG 4369 coming in on a side track in Makansar for the meeting with northbound YP 2825 1997-10-27.
YG 4369 is on its way again south to Wankaner and in the background YP 2825 with its train heading north for Morbi.
In the morning 1997-10-27 YP 2825 has just arrived Makansar station waiting for a meeting with a southbound train. The train crew is waiting outside the steamloco.
YP 2825 is waiting with northbound train Fast Pass 416 when YG 4369 arrives from north with train Fast Pass 413 bound for Wankaner Jct 1997-10-27.
YP 2233 arrive Wankaner just before sunset 1999-04-02. I n front on the buffer a man rest with his saltbags after a days work at the salt fields at Navlakhi 1999-04-02.
YG 4159 outside the sehd in Wankaner with YG 4138 behind, just arrived with a train from Morvi 1997-04-02.
A friend of mine, even if he could not speak a singel word in english. I met him the first time in Sabarmati-Ahmadabad 1996-97 and he was then transferred to Wankaner there I saw him again 1999. His name is C Dwaiswamy and I wonder where he is today, anyo
YP 2825 in full steam at Wankaner 1999-10-24, just arrived with a passenger train from Morvi.
YG 3360 is resting outside Wankaner shed together with a sister engine in the afternoon 1999-10-23.
Another picture at Wankaner shed taken from the turntable. To the left is YG 4369 and the date is 1999-10-24.
A closer look at YG 4369 to the left 1999-10-24. Wankaner shed.
The always so very friendly repair crew in Wankaner is posing in front of YG 4369 1999-10-24 at my last visit in Wankaner a few month befor steam was closing down at the shed. The people at this shed always give me very nice memory from my journeys in Ind
YG 3360 just arrived with a passenger train from Morvi to Wankaner station just before noon 1999-10-24.
Aight from the turntable in Wankaner the morning 1999-04-06. From left is loco YP 2684-YG 3318-YG 3334-YG 3937 and YG 3430.
Here I am standing myself together with Shedmaster in Wankaner Mr Bhupendra Singh at the side of loco YP 2825 1999-10-23.
Some locos are waiting outside the shed in Wankaner, in the middle is YG 34374, 1999-04-06
YG 3437 is ready to go and shunt all saltwaggons coming in from Morvi 1999-04-06. To the left is a very good friend of mine who I first met in Sabarmati and now he had been transferred to Wankaner.
One morning at Wankaner MG steam shed 1999-04-06 with the following locos present, from left YG 3437-YP 2684-YG 3430 and YG 4552.
After taking water YG 3430 is ready for another duty at Wankaner shed 1999-04-02.