Central Railway DC/AC Conversion - KalyanJn - Thane - LTT, Jan 12,2014

Pictures of the historic DC traction to AC traction conversion of Kalyan - Thane - LTT section of Central Railway - January 2014.

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Date: 2014-01-10
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 65 items
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A Big Applause for the night riders, who spent entire night in the very chilled night, at Kalyan Junction, right from 11:30pm till morning 7am, to capture entire sequences of actions during the traffic block period, as well as, the entries of dead AC loco

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Shining Wap4 (dead)SRC 22743, which hauled 12152 Samarsata exp, till IGP, was made dead, and Ajni WAP7 30310 attached to it, which hauled it till LTT, under newly converted AC region of KYN-TNA-LTT, is captured by Nitin Kumar, on a Fresh Early Morning on

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1st AC and 1st 3 phase loco - WAP7 of Ajni / CR / 30310, halted at KYN Jn, on early morning, with 12152 Samarsata exp. Pic clicked by Nitin Kumar. (Nitin Kumar)

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Early morning, 1st ever AC Loco Ajni 30310, post AC COnversion of KYN-LTT brings the 12152 Samarsata exp, into KYN. Pic clicked by Nitin Kumar (Nitin Kumar)

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As the last EMU service for KJT leaves Platform 6 of KYN before the Megablock for the DC-AC conversion work on the midnight of 11-12th Jan 2014, RPF walked the length of the platform holding the banner requesting people to not travel on rooftops of locals

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First Run of 22109 LTT-NZM AC SF Post AC-DC COnversion. Seen here with BSL WAP4#22974 passing Asangaon. (Dhairya Upadhyaya)

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LTT - NZM AC Express get's AC loco link from LTT from for the first time!
BSL WAP-4 #22974 hauled LTT - NZM AC Express skips Asangaon at a good speed. (Heth Kansara)

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2nd Wam-4 #21355 from ET enters Mumbai Ltt with Jan Sadharan Express in tow. (Dhawal Poladia)

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The SRC WAP-4 #22894 with Hatia-LTT express enters its ultimate stop - LTT, Mumbai. (Deep)

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AJNI WAP-7 # 30310, the first pure AC loco Live enters in Kalyan - Mumbai Division with a dead SRC WAP-4 # 22673 bringing 12152 Howrah LTT Samarasata Express. Captured at Kalyan Junction on 12th January 2014. (Tushar Dhake)

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Aurangabad JanShatabdi on up thru line at Thakurli catching up speed as DC EMU brakes for its scheduled halt. Video recorded by Akshay Marathe can be seen here. (Aamod)

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Final day of DC traction on TNA-KYN section, and we were fortunate to see this action! Two DC EMU's crossing each other at Thakurli. :) (Aamod)

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ET WAP4 22973 with 13201 RJPB-LTT exp, alongwith parallel entry by DC EMU from Vashi (Vijay)

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SRC WAP4 22894 with Hatia - LTT Exp (Vijay)

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Historical moment for CR first ever AC loco departed from LTT.
GZB WAP 7 # 30252 with 12542 LTT GKP Hybrid Sant Kabir Dham Express approach at Kaloo viaduct. (Raj Bhavsar)

Comments
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All you guys, take a bow. Super effort really. Amazing.
Posted by Sudhir Moghe on 2014 Jan 17 02:49:46 +0000
Super album!! Great effort guys!!
Posted by Avishek Basu on 2014 Jan 16 17:37:36 +0000
Thank you so0 much Apu Sir.... And fantastic coverage from all of the guys in and around KYN-LTT section.
Posted by Vijay Aravamudhan on 2014 Jan 13 04:20:22 +0000