The Saurashtra Sojourn

This is a collection of pictures from our journey and ride across the railway network of Kathiawar Peninsula, which is twinned with natural forests, rolling meadows, and miles of seashore. Sections we covered in this sojourn include Hapa, Jamnagar, Dwarka, Okha, Rajkot, Veraval, and Junagadh.

Date: 2013-12-13
Owner: Harish Kumar
Size: 59 items
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Life goes on in the streets of Okha, even as an empty rake getting shunted to the pit line. With no stabling lines to park shunting locos, the locos of the incoming trains are extensively used for shunting. (Benher)

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After traveling over 2,500 kilometers, the Ernakulam - Okha express finally clears the home signal of its destination, Okha with an off-link: twin WDG-4s from Hubli (Raghu Jayaraman)

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With our connection back to Rajkot was late in the evening, we took a boat ride up to Bet Dwarka and back. (Raghu Jayaraman)

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We return to Okha station to take the Ahmedabad bound passenger back to Rajkot to get our Bike which arrived at Rajkot by SC-Rajkot express on this day. (Naveen)

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RTM WDM-3A #16834R gets ready to haul the Ahmedabad bound passenger train from Okha. (Benher)

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We were the sole occupants of the only reserved coach from Okha. But the coach filled up, once we reached the temple town of Dwaraka (Benher)

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Day two of our sojourn in Saurashtra region would see us moving from Rajkot to Veraval via Jamnagar, Porbander. (Harish Kumar)

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Led by twin WDG-4s from UBL, the Okha-Ernakulam express gingerly crosses the bridge over River Aji (Benher)

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So, do Rajkot hold a WDG-4?No, this is just a scale model placed on top of Retiring rooms at Rajkot railway station. (Naveen)

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(Naveen)

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WDG-4 #12190 gently passes through Rajkot with a long BTPN rake. We would meet this rake, again at Hapa, and little later at Jamnagar (Naveen)

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The calm before the storm... (Benher)

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And here comes the storm, the Jamnagar bound 19017 Saurashtra Janata Express breezes towards its destination. This station is located behind the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium. (Benher)

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and it's proceed all the way! (Benher)

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She just requires that "attention" to fly away (Benher)

Comments
Very good set of pics there - Great effort and hats off to all four of you.
Posted by PVS Praveen Kumar on 2013 Dec 22 11:59:46 +0000