notice the livery of the coaches!

Posted by Aseem Johri on 2012 May 21 11:04:22 +0000

What a rare capture! KK in its glory days!

Posted by Abhinav Bhattacharjee on 2012 May 21 18:12:58 +0000

great legend...do Banglore-delhi also had MG links??

Posted by Abhishek Kashyap trainman on 2012 May 21 18:27:09 +0000

wasnt this karnataka kerala express at that point of time?

Posted by Deepak Murali on 2012 May 22 02:54:37 +0000

one of the best liveries i've seen: yellow and green, and the loco matched it as well. it was replicated in the inaugural Udyan Express too. the 9 coach Karnataka Exp and the Brindavan (also in dark green/yellow stripes livery) passing through Cox Town were the highlights of my childhood summers spent in Bangalore!

Posted by John Mani on 2012 May 23 04:04:34 +0000

Yes, brilliant snap!
And the KK did have a beautiful livery back then...I remember seeing this livery as late as 1986-87. I'd been to SBC to receive my aunt, who returned from Dharamshala. It was an evening arrival. Then, the KK fell off a bridge over the 'Kabana nallah' somewhere in the Chambal ghats...after that, the livery changed to the Rajdhani-like red-cream-red one. Then, in the early 90s, the KK and many other SFEs across IR took on a cream-maroon livery. After that came the present one...

Posted by Dr. Himagirish Rao on 2012 May 24 11:39:06 +0000

For the actual livery, please check out this song from Coolie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYrxx1rSHgA . In the 80s, even the Ganga Kaveri had the exact same livery.

Posted by Mani Vijay on 2012 Jun 04 01:01:13 +0000