Varanasi Airport is at Babatpur, to the northwest of the city on the Varanasi - Jaunpur line. So this train could be anyPassenger headed for Sultanpur/ Faizabad/ Lucknow or beyond.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2008 Jul 11 17:34:40 +0000

Brings back memories of the good old days.

Posted by Dinesh Hukmani on 2008 Jul 11 15:40:06 +0000

Dr. Jitendra, Travancore and Cochin were two different states. Though officially friendly states, there were always ideological differences between the two. After independence, the two states were merged to form the state of Travancore-Cochin (1947-1956), administrative capital at Trivandrum and Judicial capital at Cochin. Later, in 1956, the district of Malabar was merged with Travancore-Cochin to form the state of Kerala. Travancore pushed for a commonwealth of Independent states after independence but the king of Cochin, Sri. Kerala Varma joined the union of India immediately. This was more of a political move to "defeat" Travancore, and the commonwealth (spearheaded by States of Bhopal and Travancore) idea died off instantly

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 Jul 10 03:15:36 +0000

I had always wantd to see an MG pic of this section.. thanks Jimmy for this gem!

Posted by Sriram P on 2008 Jul 09 15:20:56 +0000

Thanks Jimmy for this piece of history. Did it really take 15 yrs. to complete? And didn't know that Travancore - Cochin was the first princely state to join India. I guess Hyderabad was the last one - Hyderabad and Kutch had their own currencies and railway stations within their boundaries accepted only those, and not the Indian rupee of that time.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2008 Jul 09 05:48:33 +0000

Uniform livery rakes, gleaming steamers, beautiful inspection cars and clean yards - feats that can sadly never be repeated today.

Posted by Bharat Vohra on 2008 Jun 02 19:31:20 +0000

This is the main BG platform - PF3. At that time, PF1-2 was for MG trains. Note the WDM4, most probably bringing in a freight load on the Dn. through line.

Posted by Mani Vijay on 2008 May 30 15:30:33 +0000

Great picture and sorry for being nit picking. This is actually Old Delhi Railway Station (DLI). NDLS did not have 12 PF's in 1986 ;-)

Posted by Siddhartha Ganesh on 2008 May 30 11:37:46 +0000

thanks a lot sir for providing a WDM1 pic. btw what does this WAT imply on the loco?any shed specifications?

Posted by Deepak Murali on 2008 May 30 09:11:54 +0000

Correction - Is this Nilgiris? Are you referring to the Heroes of Palghat Division?

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2008 May 30 07:26:42 +0000