Bus, Beer, and Bytrayanahalli

After putting in all the hard work at BNC-2009, it was time for the Bangalore gang to chill out! Armed with a WTT, GPS, cameras, beer and mineral water, eleven members of the group travelled to Bangarapet (BWT) for a memorable ride on the RailBus to Kolar (KQZ) and back.

Also included are a few pictures taken while railfanning at Bytrayanahalli (BFW), a small wayside station where the gang chose to break for lunch.

Also read the Trip Report.

Date: 2009-02-09
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BWT-Kolar_09C

Idle passenger at Bangarpet. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 982
BWT-Kolar_21C

OHE Inspection van. Bangarpet. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 970
BWT-Kolar_23C

Old markings from SBC via Yelahanka, Chintamani, Kolar. Bangarpet. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 958
BWT-Kolar_33C

The railbus waits. The tracks behind go towards Yelahanka. Kolar. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
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BWT-Kolar_42C

The old alignment of NG to Yelahanka, the NG track is no more. Kolar. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
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BWT-Kolar_67C

Sanket samples tamarind. Byataranahalli. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
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Views: 865
BWT-Kolar_70C

L - R: Srini, Vibin, Krishnamurthi, V Anand, Pawan, Arnab, Sundar, Manish, Sanket, (sitting) Ravi, Prakash. Byataranahalli. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 1064
BWT-Kolar_83C

Spare, uncommisioned Garib Rath. Whitefield. (Arnab Acharya)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 1337
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A longish shot at the Marikuppam passenger waiting at Bangarapet [ BWT ]. KJM WDG3A #14636 (Vibin Andrews)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Vibin Andrews
Views: 967
IMG_1486

The Bangarpet-Kolar-Bangarpet railbus parked at Bangarpet. This was built by BEML and runs on the line as a single-train-only service, that is only one railbus runs up and down. No other traffic is operational on the Kolar line. 2009-02-07. (Pawan Koppa)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Guest
Views: 1245
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VAnand_Ravi

Anand sir poses with his steamer bandana, while Ravi looks on (Vibin Andrews)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Vibin Andrews
Views: 996
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Rare Signal post accomodating Starter, Calling On Signal, Shunt Signal and Route Indicator. Calling on singnal is generally on a home signal here it is on a starter. (Kalyan Vasanth)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Ravi Sundararajan
Views: 1214
SingleTrainToken

This was the prize for our visit. A token thats used in a 'ONE Train only section', something thats expected to be part of Heritage. (Vibin Andrews)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Vibin Andrews
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Bangarpet Jn-Kolar is one of the unique sections in IR - NG converted into BG few years back. This is part of “ONE TRAIN ONLY” Block section one of very few such sections in IR
Only one train is allowed into this section at any given time. Kolar ...

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Ravi Sundararajan
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The Rail Bus has no buffers, no screw coupler and no Air brake feed pipe. It can not haul others. Special procedures for when hauled (Kalyan Vasant)

Date: 2009-02-07
Owner: Ravi Sundararajan
Views: 866
Comments
A very nice and different album. Liked the coverage of railbus and kudos to all young and veteran railfans teaming up and giving it a superb end result.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2009 Feb 14 09:27:38 +0000
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Nice album, guys. The BWT-KGQ-YLK NG line is a historic one. The Mysore State Railways operated the Bangalore-Mysore railway line and other lines into the hinterlands of Mysore state. These railway lines connected all the major towns of Mysore state....
Posted by Jimmy Jose on 2009 Feb 14 09:09:28 +0000
Great set of pics from one of the least explored regions. Nice to see IR still retaining such precious, lovely vehicle inspite of advancing a lot in technology!
Posted by Ranjeet Ramaswamy Iyer on 2009 Feb 14 01:14:36 +0000
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