The Emphatic Steam of Darjeeling with Meter Gauge & Broad Gauge Flavors

Railways have always been essentially identified by steam locos. While some had the privilege to see them some did not. We decided to fulfill this desire by visiting the World Heritage site of UNESCO- The Darjeeling Himalayan Railways captured through our lenses. We also picked up flavors of the Meter Gauge Rail Bus in Siliguri and a Broad Gauge Malda Town alco which is rare in other parts of our country

Date: 2012-09-07
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Kurseong Market

We had our lunch and then we started our work again as the train back to Darjeeling from Kurseong starts at 15:00 hrs through the Kurseong market (Trayambak Ojha)

Date: 2012-08-26
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Steam Valley

Making echos through the valley and negotiating numerous curves the train to Darjeeling travels merrily (Trayambak Ojha)

Date: 2012-08-26
Owner: Trayambak Ojha
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Steam_Up

A steam service from Kurseong to Darjeeling climbs up the hills chugs to its full effort emitting a thick cloud of steam on a day when Diesels were on repairs. Thanks to the efforts put in to capture the hill for this a leech sucked quite some blood out o

Date: 2012-08-26
Owner: Trayambak Ojha
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Last-Steam

The fog is relentless and refuses to leave the entire Darjeeling valley this last service from Kurseong to Darjeeling hauled by a steam locomotive makes it's way puffing up the hills as we decided to call it a day in the hills keeping in mind we had a tra

Date: 2012-09-07
Owner: Trayambak Ojha
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MLDT Alco Night

A shot when my heart was pounding faster than a Rajdhani so much that it even skipped beats. At a RPF/GRP/Army/Police infested New Jalpaiguri Railway station a solitary rebuilt Malda Town WDM3A patiently waits for it's next duty (Trayambak Ojha)

Date: 2012-09-07
Owner: Trayambak Ojha
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Excellent album!! Liked it very much !!!
Posted by Abhinav Phangcho Choudhury on 2012 Sep 28 14:30:45 +0100
Excellent coverage and lovely pics. Magical atmosphere. DHR never lets one down whatever be the season and weather. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by S. Srinivas on 2012 Sep 14 14:52:56 +0100
Lovely pictures and on top a perfect Album! :)
Posted by Raj Upadhyay on 2012 Sep 14 14:35:15 +0100
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