24 photos that remind us of Railway’s extraordinary journey

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The Fairy Queen gets ready at Delhi Cantt.

This is how big the Garrat is!! This loco was by far the biggest ever to run on Indian tracks. One of them was recently brought back to life by the SER Kharagpur workshops and runs occasionally.

The smallest steamer to have ever operated on IR. An A class loco, 885 named Hasang. This loco is parked on the small mound almost level with the flyover outside NRM.

The WR 899 was a railcar operating on the Neral Matheran Railway. Built on the chassis of a Dodge truck of the 30s, it has a strange belt driving mechanism.



The WCG1, earlier known as EF1, had a long life with the GIPR and then the Central Railways. The last of these locos were retired only in the 1990s having entered service in the 1930s. The locos were probably the only articulated electric locos to do duty on IR. CR staff used to affectionately call them the Kekda - the crab.

 

This MG steamer from Jaipur State Railway is at the head of original Palace on Wheels coaches. The saloons are in terrible condition with rust and termites having eaten away the bodywork.

Cute looking MG Diesel loco SR #203 at National Railway Museum, New Delhi.

B class Steam locomotive #777 at National Railway Museum, New Delhi

MTR No. 2 at National Railway Museum, New Delhi.

WCP-1 Sir Roger Lumley at the National Railway Museum in 1996.

Locos 7161 and 15005 were used on the winter steam express but there is no report of more recent running. Much of the light plate work showed signs of corrosion and patching of perforated areas.

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway train moving slowly into the misty woods near Coonoor.

Locomotive 738 in operation, just arrived at Matheran Hill Station circa January 1974.



DHR ’B’ class 788 ’Tuskar’ hauls the morning local train Kurseong-Darjeeling.

A view of KC#520 with a special train crossing one of the multi-arch bridges on the KSR.

Rail Motor Car 4 arrives at Kathleegat. Kalka-Simla Railway.

Saraya Sugar Co 0-4-0 #8 ’Tweed’ Sharp Stewart built 1873. Sardanagar, 1980.



Dehri Rohtas Railway, 6 Avonside works, 1926.

ERS WDM-3a moves slowly across the Venduruthy bridge and heads towards ERS with a concor train.



Bagnall 0-4-0ST ’David’ and B class 0-4-0ST #789 standing outside the engine shed at Tipong Colliery.

Central Railway WP 7067 departs Gwalior on 8 November 1978. Built at India’s Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in 1963.




Ghoom and the afternoon Joy Ride Toy Train on a very cold Feb day.




One of the impressive broad gauge XE Class No.22512 on shed at Asansol, Eastern Railway. Built by William Beardmore & Co., Dalmuir, Scotland in 1930.

 

Courtesy: Indiatoday