Glimpses of the meter gauge lines from Rajasthan. Sections we covered during our five days sojourn in the Land of Kings include Jaipur -> Churu, Churu -> Sikar, Sikar -> Loharu, Sadulpur -> Hanumangarh and Ratangarh -> Sardar Sharh -> Ratangarh.
The ship and the train of desert waiting at Kinaniyari. The village of Kinaniyari is right on the state border of Rajasthan and Haryana. Surera Halt and Elenabad are the two stations enroute that falls in Haryana and Tulwara Jhil, another Border town. (Ha
YDM-4 #6611 takes the loop, as it pulls into Kinaniyari with the Sadulpur bound passenger (BenHur)
Sadulpur bound passenger, after clearing the loop at Kinaniyari, chugs off and dissappears into the distant horizon! (Harish Kumar)
Indira Gandhi Canal, the major water source for the north-western region of Rajasthan. The canal is feeded by Sutlej and Beas rivers and passes through Punjab and Haryana before entering Rajasthen near Tibbi. (Harish Kumar)
Rice Belt of Rajasthan: Rajasthan is not just about Dust and Dunes. There are plenty of green belts around, courtesy the Rajasthan Feeder Canals. (Harish Kumar)
Nations pride! Help keeping it clean. (Raghu Jayaraman)
Road level crossing right in middle of the platform, at Sherekan. (Raghu Jayaraman)
YDM-4 #6728 accompanied by semaphore gantries at Hanumangarh Junction, waits to get its belly filled.
At Ratangarh Junction, begins another journey back in time. Here we spotted fresh out of POH MG coaches. Encouraging sign, this is. MG will continue to serve this line to Sardar Shahr for few more years to come. (Naveen)
Phulera based YDM-4 #6563 would be the power of Ratangarh Jn - Sardar Shahr Passenger. (Naveen)
MACL signal for MG! (Naveen)
Another playful bovine halts the run! (Naveen)
Cute gesture! Town or village, you would always spot children waving at the passing train! (Hari Kishore)
The Ratangarh - Sardar Shahr MG route have fantastic desert landscape! Note the in-numerous Tyre tracks getting lost in the slope. (Naveen)
As we had noted in the many other MG lines of Rajasthan, its a practice of almost all LPs / ALPs to carry food to feed these eagerly awaiting dogs enroute! (Naveen)