Such contempt for NDLS by 172 Up.

12 minute halt at such an unearthly hour that even the porters would be asleep!

Posted by Uttam Padukone on 2010 Aug 25 21:41:51 +0000

It's a splendid photo Harsh! Quite an unusual angle and perspective too.

Nimish: no WP were built in the UK. The first 16 WP , later WP/P 7200-7215 were built by Baldwin in 1947. Others were later built in Canada, Poland and Austria as well as another 100 in the USA. Yes, locos had been imported from the USA before 1900.

Manohar: Yes, basically. The WP/P were the prototypes, then came WP, then the CLW locos were WP/I.

Posted by John Lacey on 2010 Aug 15 11:41:10 +0000

Would these be the prototypes which were later indigenously built as the WP class by CLW ?

Posted by Manohar Natarajan on 2010 Jul 30 11:15:11 +0000

Hey! I never knew that we imported locomotives from the US. I thought they all came from the UK. I was so grossly wrong.

Posted by Nimish Goray on 2010 Jul 29 08:44:59 +0000

Brilliant pic!

Posted by Abhishek Risbud on 2010 Jul 25 06:27:49 +0000

This is the 0-4-0 ST with maker's no. 1509, owned by Assam Oil and christened "Barbara". Verified in both Hughes' and Simon Darvill's lists. Photo was probably taken at or near Digboi.

Posted by Mohan Bhuyan on 2010 Jul 20 07:34:02 +0000

These semi circular buffers were there till their retirement from ER in 2000. This picture is a real treasure!

Posted by Anamitra Ghatak on 2010 Jul 15 15:06:12 +0000

On the "tourist spots" pages inside the book, the falls are shown with a snake in the foreground, next to the Saputara writeup. Saputara is a small hill station on the Gujarat - Maharashtra border, accessible both from Bilimora and Nasik. Does anyone who has visited here know about any falls in the vicinity?

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2010 Jul 14 06:05:29 +0000

What a rare shot! Thanks a lot for sharing

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2010 Jul 13 11:38:10 +0000

Ok my bad..I thought it has only WR TT

Posted by Trayambak Ojha on 2010 Jul 13 09:27:26 +0000