A railway trek undertaken by a group of 5 railfans from Chichonda to Ghudankhapa (KM 912 - KM 921), a distance of 9 kms on the Teegaon-Chichonda ghat section between Itarsi & Nagpur. The team also covered the 'loop' at Darimeta station. The team comprised of Anish Niranjan, Jatin Bhavsar, Sachin Buddhisagar, Siddhartha Ganesh & Vivek Pillay (Old Man). All the photos are taken with due permission from CPRO office, Central Railway.
(Jattin Bhavsar)
A beautiful looking WAM 4 from ET (20646) heads towards NGP with the LKO-YPR express in tow. (Sid)
Vivek (Old man) Pillay is dwarfed by the mammoth WAP 7 which was hauling the HYB/VSKP bound Dakshin express. (Sid)
The only diesel action we saw that day on the ghats! (Sid)
The legendary Tamil Nadu express with it's customary WAP 4 from Erode makes it's way out of the 1918 built tunnel. (Sid)
BHEL built WAG 7 in a WAP 4 shell ascends the ghats with a heavy loaded BOXN rake. It had just come out of the first tunnel from the Khapa (a break testing station) side. (Sid)
Gudhankhapa cabin located midway between Chichonda & Teegaon.
A diagram of Ghudhankhapa catch-siding.
The NZM bound Rajdhani from SBC with a LGD based WAP 7 #30275 climbs up the ghats towards Chinchonda. Taken from Gudankhapa break testing station. (Sid)
Omega Loop of Darimeta Stn. (Jattin Bhavsar)