Jimmy, Shimoga was a very important town in the old days. Shimoga, Sagar and Kumta in this area were also part of a forest area. I am not entirely sure if Shimoga too belonged to Mysore presidency in the old days, will have to check.

Posted by Naren Damodaran on 2007 Jun 03 03:16:49 +0000

Great image! Reminds me of Poochi's shots when the YAM1 retired.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jun 03 03:02:55 +0000

Line between SBC and YPR too is a dual bidirectional line.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jun 03 02:58:18 +0000

Quite a few maps are aldready available today on the site of this area. Anyway, there is one more line from BYPM to BYPL so trains can go straight from the yard to MAS. Malleshwaram railway station is there between YPR and SBC.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jun 03 02:56:53 +0000

One of the best photo series from you Bharath. Keep it up! =) The charm of rural India is very much present.

Posted by Rohit Mohan on 2007 Jun 03 02:47:36 +0000

Any photos of Talguppa station building, it's surroundings etc available? Is there any remains of the old goods yard there?

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 Jun 02 18:31:32 +0000

Very interesting. Thanks a lot for sharing. This must be the only well documented trip on this dying line

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 Jun 02 14:02:13 +0000

The station looks so much like an old village bunglow. It is quite big for a small unimportant branch line standard. Any idea on the history of this line? Was this branch once operated by an erstwhile princely state, operating a lone railway line?

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 Jun 02 13:44:49 +0000

Nice photo!

Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2007 Jun 02 13:39:48 +0000

Nice Shot. I guess it is Anamitra on board.

Posted by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer on 2007 Jun 02 08:53:18 +0000