February 15-16 & 21 2012: A full day excursion with Apurva, Ashish and Lalam to Bhor Ghat at Lonavla, Monkey Hill and evening at Kamshet, as well as next morning at Pune and a day trip with IS Anand from Mumbai to Pune. Thanks a lot to Anand, Apurva, Ashish, Lalam, Rahul, Ranjit and all the others for their great hospitality!
Kamshet: General second class, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Deccan Express on the move, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: The next highlight followed with 16530 Bangalore - Mumbai CST "Udyan Express", we had seen the train into the other direction at Lonavla. KJM WDP-4 #20055, built in January 2008, thundered up the grade to Lonavla, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappe
Kamshet: The panorama view of "Udyan Express", in the field to the left you can spot a shed at one end of the only active public metre gauge line in Pune district, my companions had previously discovered a tiny railbus there, 2012-02-15 (Roni Ka
Kamshet: Down at the side road sister loco KJM WDP-4 #20056 followed with GM-thunder, pulling 11030 Kolhapur - Mumbai CST "Koyna Express", 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: "Koyna Express" towards Mumbai, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Parade of commuter feet, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: The locals were equally (un)impressed, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Now we moved to a lookout point at a hotel construction site. Soon the first local EMU from Pune came by, with new, yellow front, big windscreen and sadly the new, ugly purple livery, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Local to Lonavla, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Commuters on road and rail, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Commuters from the EMU on the way home, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Hotel construction builders' huts, sometimes whole families lived there! 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Around ten minutes later the next local followed, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)
Kamshet: Local to Lonavla disappearing in the haze, 2012-02-15 (Roni Kappel)