Three of Pune's budding Railfans - Jattin Bhavsar , Raj Bhavsar and Chaitanya Gokhale went on an indefatigable journey of the prevalent meter gauge trains in Rajasthan and Gujarat covering the overnight Ahmedabad-Udaipur Meter gauge and the old and dusty Mavli-Marwar MG Section en route to the NRM 2010 Convention. The trip began from Mumbai with the Shatabdi Express to Ahmedabad and continued with Ahmedabad-Udaipur MG, Udaipur to Mavli via road transport and then then again on very backward and unconnected Mavli-Marwar Meter gauge train. The journey of rails was continued by 6210 Mysore-Ajmer Exp to Ajmer from Marwar and then the Ajmer-New Delhi Shatabdi Express to Delhi. The album contains pictures taken in the above order of journey from Ahemedabad to Delhi.Images taken with due permission from CPRO-NWR.
The only crossing. The passenger from Marwar Junction to Mavli Junction crosses us at an Unknown station somewhere after Nathdwara. (Jatin Bhavsar)
NWR MG coach and the coupler. (Jatin Bhavsar)
The Mavli-Marwar MG train passes through many similar stations like this one of them being Kankroli. (Raj Bhavsar)
The ride down the ghats starts here. The train is just leaving Khambli ghat. (Jatin Bhavsar)
Highest point in ghats, Summit. (Raj Bhavsar)
The passenger proceeds towards Goram ghat. (Jatin Bhavsar)
The unqite catch siding enroute. This was between Khambli Ghat and Goram Ghat. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The trademark Semaphore signal. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
The Mavli-Marwar MG entering an old tunnel enroute the ghats. (Raj Bhavsar)
Train waits at Goram Ghat as the monkeys look on. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
The Monkeys joyously accept the food thrown by the passengers and some notoriously take it away at goram ghat. (Raj Bhavsar)
The old Meter Guage Steam shed just before Khambli ghat station. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
another view of the catch siding down the ghats. (Jatinn Bhavsar)
Finally we reach Phulad after a breathtaking run down the ghats. (Chaitanya Gokhale)
MG ballast carrier goods train waits at Phulad outer. (Raj Bhavsar)