The Saurashtra Sojourn

This is a collection of pictures from our journey and ride across the railway network of Kathiawar Peninsula, which is twinned with natural forests, rolling meadows, and miles of seashore. Sections we covered in this sojourn include Hapa, Jamnagar, Dwarka, Okha, Rajkot, Veraval, and Junagadh.

Date: 2013-12-13
Owner: Harish Kumar
Size: 59 items
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Loco trip shed and the yard at Veraval. The branch line to Somnath is to the left of the picture. (Harish Kumar)

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(Harish Kumar)

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With the sun going down fast, mild smoking Ratlam WDM-3A #14092 hurries towards Jetalsar Jn with Porbandar bound passenger. With this we moved towards Kutch region, only to be back on the last day of our trip. (Raghu Jayaraman)

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(Naveen)

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The bi-weekly ERS-Okha Express shows up with an ERS WDM-3A (Benher)

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Railfanning is contagious. Localites on seeing us, indulged in a bit of rail photography. (Benher)

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On its final leg of journey, the ERS WDM-3A 14081 pulls out of Rajkot with 16338 ERS-Okha Express (Naveen)

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Immediately following it was, the Ahmedabad-Somnath Express (Benher)

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A sabarmati WDG-4 sneaks in with a short BCNA consist (Benher)

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..and a Gandhidham based shunter reverses with an even shorter consist. (Benher)

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Action continues at Rajkot, with RTM WDM-3A 14090 pulling in with Somnath-Rajkot passenger (Benher)

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and Vatva WDM-3A 18547 making an parallel entry with the weekly Okha-Guwhati Express (Benher)

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These siblings enjoy their time at RJT. (Benher)

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(Benher)

Comments
Very good set of pics there - Great effort and hats off to all four of you.
Posted by PVS Praveen Kumar on 2013 Dec 22 11:59:46 +0000