Jabalpur - Nagpur Narrow Gauge Trip

by Archit Goel

Date: 2006-10-06
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 17 items
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First Class, Narrow Gauge style. Now in use only in the Jabalpur-Balaghat-Jabalpur Satpura Express. Notice the provision to sleep above the seats. The FC has one of the most luxurious toilets in the entire IR system, much more spacious than those in broad

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Sleeper accomodation, Narrow Gauge style. This consists of sitting accomodation for 38 and sleeper berths for 10, and is in use on the Jabalpur-Nagpur and Nagpur-Chhindwara sections.
Date: 2006-09-30
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All clear for the narrow gauge Japalpur Nagpur express, at least for the time being. Note the mismatched blue loco against the VB coaches.
Date: 2006-09-30
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Clientele of the narrow gauge consists of poor tribal population. How they will manage during the BG conversion and how will they be able to contribute to the recovery of BG conversion costs is something that the IR management has never thought of.

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JBP-NGP NG route passes through some beutiful forest areas.

Date: 2006-09-30
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Da-Pu-Ma Doorghatna Raahat Yaan, Chindwara.
The system is proud and self-sufficient, but not for long.
Date: 2006-09-30
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A Narrow Gauge water tanker just outside Chhindwara station.
Date: 2006-09-30
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These point signals, now a rarity on the main lines were seen in abundance in the NG version.
Date: 2006-09-30
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Maintenance schedule for the 2004 built unique narrow gauge sleeper coach, JBP-NGP is the only sector in the country to run such a coach.

Date: 2006-09-30
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Thelong long rake of the 2NNJ passenger passes through some dense Satpura forests.

Date: 2006-09-30
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Caution! Caution order statement for the Chhindwara-Nagpur section. One of the activities being undertaken is welding of rail joints!
Date: 2006-09-30
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Driving cab of theZDM3a consisting of the horns, the accelerator-this does not have notches, the train vacuum brake and the loco brake.
Date: 2006-09-30
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A ZDM4 loco at the Chhindwara station. Note the presence of water-filling facility for coaches at the station. In no way is the narrow gauge system inferior than its broad gauge counterparts.
Date: 2006-09-30
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TimeTable

The revised time-table for the Nagpur-Chhindwara-Nainpur sections. Timings were revised on the 20th of July, and nowhere do they appear in print, not even in the October Bradshaw.

Date: 2006-09-30
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This is not the regular enquiry but the control office number, updated authentic information on the running of trains can be had from this number before a trip on the JBP-NGP section. Also, Mr. Siddharth Sharma, an extremely friendly TTE at Chhindwara can