Thanks a lot Mr. Bisht and Samar. A real treat.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2014 Feb 13 15:52:58 +0000

Wow what an impressive schedule. 77 years later its only an hour faster!

Posted by Abhinav Bhattacharjee on 2014 Feb 13 14:22:46 +0000

The Glory Days! When individual trains had personality, character and their own advertisements! Today's boring, indistinguishable trains have not even an iota of that charisma. Thanks for sharing these.

Posted by Shashanka Nanda on 2014 Feb 13 11:04:52 +0000

Yes, the earliest power cars in the 3 and 4 coach EMU had single power car with two pantographs. See here and here

Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2014 Jan 03 21:54:22 +0000

Does the second coach -the power car, have two pantos, of which one is folded down?

Posted by Apurva Bahadur on 2014 Jan 03 12:37:27 +0000

Wonderful!!! Thanks Harshvardhan for sharing with us.

Vijay, It appears to be a longer coach. However, if seen carefully, cab coach ends just after the window next to 4th door (excl cab door). Coach length is more or less same as those seen now.

Posted by Shantanu Kulkarni on 2014 Jan 01 09:42:20 +0000

Wowww, Truly a Gem. And my god, see how long is the coach.... Appears to be much longer, than todays conventional length. How did this got accomodated on turnouts? Thanks Harsh for sharing.

Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2014 Jan 01 03:03:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing this nostalgic picture, Harsh. My guess is, this EMU is on PF1 of Dadar station. From the shadow of the OHE wire on the face of the EMU and of the rake on the ballast, the time seems to just past noon. I may even hazard a guess about the month as late April.

Posted by Ashish Kuvelkar on 2013 Dec 30 09:28:06 +0000

The bigger one fits to XB description, but I didn't know that GIP also employed them. Smaller one is definitely Fairy Queen.
But These two were definitely not employed in the construction site of the Rashtrapati Bhawan or Parliament House. Polished painted wheels of XB doesn't confirm the identity of a construction worker. Parliament House design was brought in 1912 but the real construction began in 1921. And our Fairy Queen, who served only in the eastern part of the EIR and was withdrawn from service in 1909, was plinthed at Howrah until 1943. It was accorded with heritage status in 1972, the year when India was celebrating the silver Jubilee of its Independence, and was restored to exhibit at National Rail Museum.
The picture, in my opinion, was from 1972 when these locomotives were brought to the national Capital for an exhibiton, as part of the 25th year celebration.

Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2013 Dec 27 05:32:44 +0000

This pic is from Charbagh Workshop. That WP from the first batch supplied by Baldwin is still plinthed inside. A copy of the picture also framed at Charbagh Workshop. But the picture might date back to late 80s or early 90s when DLW just rolled out its last batch of WDM2 in 16xxx series and WAG1 were still in action. Charbagh Workshop started diesel loco maintenance in 1975, and electric loco maintenance in 1985, though electric reached Lucknow much later

Posted by Santulan Mahanta on 2013 Dec 02 14:31:19 +0000