Enchanting North East

A set of pictures from a trip made by four railfans-Avishek Basu,Francis Bosco,Harisharan GK and Sathya Narayanan T to the North East,a perfect example of heaven on earth.
(All pictures were taken with the permission from CPRO of NFR)

Date: 2012-07-12
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 45 items (54 items total)
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Twin YDM-4s at the helm of the goods train at Lower Haflong station. (Avishek)

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A Banner put up by the Assam Regiment at the Lower Haflong Station (Harisharan)

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The Broad Gauge viaduct. This is the under constructing BG viaduct just before Lower Haflong station. This viaduct will redirect the BG line to an upcoming station named New Haflong. (Avishek)

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A palindrome from HWH getting attached on the other side of the Jorhat Town JS for hauling it back to Guwahati. (Bose)

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Nailalung...
This is a very typical station with the track laid far down from the Station building and others. Even the Cabin crew shows signal from the top. (Bose)

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When we arrived at DBRT it was cloudy dark morning with drizzling continuously. But no one can stop a railfan, Bose and Sathya were admiring the NGC WDM-3 with the LEDO Passenger. (Avishek)

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Semaphore and Broad Gauge !!!

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We wait at the scenic Bargolai station enroute Ledo for passengers to detrain. (Harisharan)

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Through the colliery!!!DBRT-LEDO Passenger making it's way into Ledo... (Bose)

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LEDO station name board having a back ground of resting LEDO Passenger in the so called yard. (Bose)

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Ledo Passenger was resting out side the Ledo station as Ledo ICE has occupied the Platform of Ledo. (Bose)

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The Ledo Passenger resting in the so called yard while the platform was occupied by Ledo Intercity.. (Avishek)

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'Lekhapani',the Eastern most station of the Indian Railway network

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MG tracks at Lekhapani Station... (Avishek)

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At Lekhapani (Harisharan)

Comments
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Fabulous coverage of a beautiful MG section! great work!!
Posted by Benhur on 2012 Sep 01 08:46:02 +0100
Truly Enchanting NE !! Myself residing in the western part of the country, in reality this location would probably be out of my reach for me. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by Sriram SN on 2012 Aug 31 16:47:55 +0100
Fantastic album! Great effort by you all to take time out and do this trip. The experience would be really rewarding I am sure! Keep up the good work :-)
Posted by Pawan Koppa on 2012 Aug 28 05:51:44 +0100