I remember visiting the ZTS (Zonal Training School) with my dad, who was a personnel officer in CR. There was this huge model set in the middle of the room with blocks, points and signals; as a kid it was quite awesome. I'm sure it would be still awesome to me and all other rail nuts.

The location of this picture is the Surawali Halt located between Madgaon and Majorda. The train is the afternoon Vasco - Kulem passenger. Just in case anyone want to visit 'heaven'.

These are three WDG 3As hauling a 58 strong BOXN rake filled to the brim with coal. The train is coming from the Vasco harbour and moving towards Braganza ghat at Majorda Jn. The leading loco is a baldie, while the other two have angular short hoods.

Triple engine is not a rare sight when such goods train pass through Braganza Ghats everyday. These Loco's have to pull these wagons as they climb the ghat

Yep! The HWH Raj via Gaya has been running completely under electric traction since the very early 80s.
The via Patna HWH Raj has switched over to electric for the entire run, since 2001 - I think.

Fantastic pictures, great scenery. BTW, where is this located?

Dear Mr. Vikas,

I was fascinated by this site. Excellent photographs and I admire your interest. Overall this site is great too and I will keep coming back. Kudos to you and your friends.

Regards,

Sumantra Chatterji (sumantra@rediffmail.com)

nice shot,sir.was the train electric hauled?

The famous Manmad Junction.Now everything is Broad Gauge. 15 years ago
you had Meter gauge coming in from
Hy-bad and BG passing from VT to Nagpur
A little before independance the MG from
Hyderabad was NIZAM Railways. Even today
so many railway & road crossings on this
MG route still have the same metal gates
with the emblem NR that is Nizam Rail.

Bhusaval a very, very important junction
There is a huge Rail colony at Bhusaval
In the steam days Bhusaval used to have one of the finest steam loco sheds and maintainance crews in India.