Day-1. The Branch lines of West Bihar Meter Gauge

The semaphore is pulled down rather forcibly for the first train of the day at Laukaha Bazaar for us. The equipments were in such a bad shape the Khalasis had to literally hang by the wires and put it down (Trayambak Ojha)

The YDM4#6494 from Narkatiaganj makes the first appearance for us from Sakri via Jhanjharpur through dense thickets (Trayambak Ojha)

The level crossing is manually managed and closed by merely a chain. The pole visible is just for show and is not functional or rather malfunctions (Trayambak Ojha)

The loco detaches and is ready to reverse back to Jhanjharpur (Trayambak Ojha)

The catenary free area and a dramatic sky was very pleasing to the eye (Trayambak Ojha)

More Manual work as the points are also changed with a lot of effort after hitting some hammers on the tracks (Trayambak Ojha)

After a quick reversal the delay in arrival from the source is made up, the train departs back to Jhanjharpur (Trayambak Ojha)

The symbol of rural India. Crops, trees, cattle and the train of old times (Trayambak Ojha)

The lush greenery and a bruised semaphores are the only company to the YDM4 hauling the passenger service to Jhanjharpur (Trayambak Ojha)

Holy Cow! The action shifts to Nirmali from Jhanjharpur as a super-packed train from Sakri to Nirmali almost came to a halt due to an erratic cow but she ran away and was saved (Trayambak Ojha)

There were so many Salman Khans on the train doin their own set of Jalwa seeing us clicking them. While the real hero of IR makes sure everything is smooth (Trayambak Ojha)

And another depiction how difficult it was for the staff here to manage the operations under complete ignorance from the Railways and the people (Trayambak Ojha)

So many rural and natural Elements with Railways in one image. While a passenger service to Jhanjhapur is getting stuffed with inmates the loco from Narkatiaganj gets ready to haul it back from Nirmali. The BG viaduct on one of the streams connecting it t

This navy blue liveried was in a hurry to reverse and depart as trains in these sections are extremely late (Trayambak Ojha)

The Old Monk and the Old Warrior (Trayambak Ojha)

Trains come and go but for a farmer and his bullock cart its life as usual (Trayambak Ojha)

As the lights are bein tested and train ready to depart the rush of people boarding it is swelling always (Trayambak Ojha)

And the train to Sakri departs from Nirmali as evenin is approaching and the sunset lights falling on the YDM4 6752 leading the rake (Trayambak Ojha)

In a small span of time the weather changed dramatically when we arrived at Tamuria a village market and light drizzle awaited us (Trayambak Ojha)

Meanwhile the train we had bid farewell at Nirmali arrived amidst increasing rains and the semaphores saluting it. (Trayambak Ojha)

It was a crossing station and the moment the train from Nirmali passed this service to Laukaha Nirmali departs with a whiff of smoke as the weather was going crazy and we retired for the day driving back to Hajipur (Trayambak Ojha)