Odds and Ends

Date: 2003-02-22
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 592 items (1153 items total)
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Tail-lights for this AJJ WAM4 are in fact a set of many small powerful LEDs. Chennai Egmore, Aug 5th, 2005. Prasanna Padmanabhan.

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Sigh! The train that got the boot (which is why it seems to be missing from the foot sticking out above the bench ;-)) You can see the name board of the Mumbai - Nagpur - Mumbai Vidarbha Express lying about. The train isn't running since the last 8 or so

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Suburban train timings beside the ticket counter at Santragachhi. Note timings of Aranyak Exp and Digha Exp are also given. Didn't know IR provided free power for charging mobile phones!. Santragachhi, 2005-07-28. Kuntal Samanta.

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The photo is blurry but the newly laid concrete turnout is clear enough. You can see the single piece crossing in the middle. This is what's being used everywhere. Bilaspur Yard, April 2005. Alok Patel.

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Strange Star shaped markings on loads of BOXN carriages in and around Gudur-Renigunta Route ... What are these markings for ???. Renigunta, 24th July 2005. Shailesh Jasani.

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This is the cash safe that travels between Pune and Lonavala. The cash collected at each station is sealed in the leather pouches seen on top of the safe. The station master and the guard (in whose cubicle the safe is carried) tally the accounts. Then the

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An abandoned signal box that would be history soon. Pune Jn., 2005-06-19. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

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All this came out of the luggage area of one of the SLRs of 2780 Goa Express - there is another SLR at the other end. Pune Jn. Pf 7, 2005-06-19. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

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Preparing for the monsoons ahead, railwaymen trim branches of trees rooting in private property next to the tracks. Pune, 2005-06-11. Apurva (iti@vsnl.com).

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OK now to which train does this board belong to 6010 Mail or 6011 Express? 11/02. Shanx.

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Guess what station this is?. circa 2002. Shanx.

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Time to Move: The last bit of MG at Virudhunagar is going to vanish soon. The MG coaches and their bogies are separated and packed on BG flat cars for shipping them to greener pastures. Virudhunagar, July 2005. M S M Saifullah.

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Time to Move: Notice the arrangement of MG coaches and the bogies on the flat cars. Virudhunagar, July 2005. M S M Saifullah.

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Time to Move: The Staff/Kitchen Car on a BG flat cars. Notice also the 'STOP' sign for MG locos. The sky is pink due to the acrid smoke from cracker factory nearby. Virudhunagar, July 2005. M S M Saifullah.

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Another view of the shaking minarets. Ahmedabad, 2005-07-11. Abhijit.