Three of Pune's budding Railfans - Jattin Bhavsar , Raj Bhavsar and Chaitanya Gokhale went on an indefatigable journey of the prevalent meter gauge trains in Rajasthan and Gujarat covering the overnight Ahmedabad-Udaipur Meter gauge and the old and dusty Mavli-Marwar MG Section en route to the NRM 2010 Convention. The trip began from Mumbai with the Shatabdi Express to Ahmedabad and continued with Ahmedabad-Udaipur MG, Udaipur to Mavli via road transport and then then again on very backward and unconnected Mavli-Marwar Meter gauge train. The journey of rails was continued by 6210 Mysore-Ajmer Exp to Ajmer from Marwar and then the Ajmer-New Delhi Shatabdi Express to Delhi. The album contains pictures taken in the above order of journey from Ahemedabad to Delhi.Images taken with due permission from CPRO-NWR.
Sabarmati YDM-4 # 6280 gets ready for hauling the 9944 Ahemedabad-Udaipur Express to Udaipur. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Our 9944 ADI-UDZ MG Express waits at Kharwa Chanda station somewhere just before udaipur. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The sabarmati beauty after finishing its duty. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
A wide view of Udaipur station as our MG train enters Udaipur. On the left are BG Platforms and on the right are MG Platforms. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
A dog sleeps peacefully on a winter morning at Udaipur.Seen in the back ground are two signals showing double red aspects (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Sun rises at Udaipur City as a diesel moves towards the dead end for reversal. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The old MG Debari tunnel. (Raj Bhavsar)
A close up of the Ancient MG alignment from Udaipur towards Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Chittaurgarh bound passenger from a different view just about to enter Debari tunnel. Between udaipur to debari. (Jatin Bhavsar)
A wide view of Debari station which is the next station after udaipur towards Chittaurgarh. The train seen in picture is the udaipur-chittargarh passenger which is about the enter Debari hauled by a Ratlam diesel. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
Ratlam WDM-2A # 18653 starts off from Debari with the passenger bound to Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Golden Chariot curves beautifully like a yellow snake after leaving Udaipur. (Jatin Bhavsar)
Here comes the surprise of the day. An unexpected Golden Chariot Express leaves Debari station hauled by a TKD WDM-3A. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Red Tuglakabad shows its piece of power as it smoothly accelerates Golden Chariot towards Chittaurgarh. Location :- Debari Outer towards Chittaurgarh. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The wait ends :- After waiting for the loco to come , finally our power for the day YDM-4 # 6651 comes and gets attached to the morning service to Marwar Jn from Mavli Jn. (Jatin Bhavsar)