South Konkan Outing 17th/18th April 2008.
IRFCA does the tallest and the longest in a single day! The Konkan Railways (KR) section near Ratnagiri (RN) has some the grandest sights on the Indian Railways. These sights are of course the Panval Viaduct and the Karbude Tunnel which are are IR's tallest viaduct and longest tunnel respectively. Once completed, the route in Kashmir would have even taller/longer structures, but as of today, Pavnal and Karbude are the champions, handling an endless traffic of fast, heavy trains. This is a joint presentation by Lalam, Hrishikesh, Sachin and Apurva. Poor quality images would be deleted once better pictures of the area are available.
After Karbude, we return to Bhoke station to catch our train, the northbound KR6 passenger.
Ernakulam's WDM 2 # 16674 hauls the southbound KR5 passenger out of the Karbude tunnel. 18th April 2008
Our train to Chiplun, the KR6 passenger arrives at Bhoke on the platform line with Ernakulam WDM 2 # 17968 while the KR 5 passenger to Sawantwadi waits on the other line. By this time, the nifty RMV has vacated the platform line and parked itself behind t
12.5 Kms north of Bhoke is the idyllic Ukshi (code UKC) station - the block sections on the KR are huge, as much as 18 Kms between station. This is the only station on the IR in which the platform passes through a tunnel! This also happens to be the only
The LED based emergency light module in the KR6 chair car. 18th April 2008.
Even after Panval and Karbude, our railfanning agenda was not done as yet. We arrived at Chiplun on the late running KR6 and rushed photograph the northbound 2431 Rajdhani - while it was on the [url=http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=17.526181&lon=73.54007
Frankly, our skewed yet determined railfanning aims do take some getting used to - specially in a small town like Chiplun. The cost of the Rickshaw hauling four railfans to the Vashisti river = Rs. 150/-, the look on the face of the Rickshaw driver when w
Our last ride of the day. The KJM WDP4 @ 20032 hauls in the 24 coach rake of the 104 Mandovi Express. Three of us from Pune took this train from Chiplun to Mangaon (from where we took a bus to Pune) while Sachin traveled to Mumbai in the same train. 18th
As the daytime Mandovi shares rakes with overnight Konkan Kanya, the seats/berths have two numbers - three numbers for the berths for the night travel while the day travel accommodates 4 seats. 18th April 2008.
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