Such contempt for NDLS by 172 Up.

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

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.

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

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

Brilliant pic!

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.

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

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?

What a rare shot! Thanks a lot for sharing

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