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Published: 2004-05-21 21:02:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1097; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 46
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Pulling a goods train, 1983.These were originally built for pulling express passenger trains. By 1983 they were only used for goods trains and slow passenger trains. They've disappeared off the system altogether now - the only steam engines left are a few tourist specials on narrow gauge lines.
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Indian railways hold a special place in my heart, they are just so interesting and often quirky, and the fact that we British helped build them also cements a place in my personal interests. If there's one thing I want to do before I pass on, it's to travel to India to personally travel the Indian rail network, particularly the Himalayas mountain railways.
Beautiful clean shot, well done.
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Sadly, these streamliners are no more - probably one or two in museums, but none in service. The only steam locos in India now are on the tourist railways - those Himalayan ones, but also in the Nilgiris. Don't forget that one - it's probably the best of the lot (not that I've seen any of them YET): [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_Mountain_Railway]
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Superb Composition with Nice use of Sunlight..........
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Just luck, really. We had to wait at a level crossing, and then this thing appeared in the early morning sunshine.
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How I like the trains!!! It seems to me that I can travel by the train for many days without any stopping. When I go by train to my relatives that live in Ukraine, it seems to me that when I'll be in the place, I can immediately go back and will be absolutely happy 
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I like trains too.
The longest train journey I've ever done was from Delhi to Khariar Road, in Orissa. The train went by a very indirect route. Well, really it was our coach that went by a very indirect route: we were taken to Raipur attached to one train, detached and left in Raipur station for four hours, and then attached to a different train for the last few hundred miles. The whole journey took 37 hours. I lost count of how many places we stopped - many of them in the middle of the night. It's quite interesting to be in a busy Indian city station in the middle of the night, especially if you're in an ordinary second class coach rather than a sealed-up air conditioned one - the windows have bars on them, but you can open then and see out properly, and hear the sounds of the station clearly, and get the atmosphere.
If you want a cup of chai, a chai wallah will bring it to you and pass it in through the bars. Or you can get out of the train and go for a wander on the platform - they always stop for ten or twenty minutes. There are stalls selling hot food or snacks, magazines, all sorts of things - all night, whenever there are trains coming and going.
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An end of a era.... these machines are so beautiful. it's amazing what humans can do- when they're not slaughtering one another.
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Indeed.
I've got a couple of more recent shots of locos like this one - about 1990 or so - but you can see the increasing neglect the poor things were suffering. Most of them have been cut up for scrap now, they don't even use them for shunting any more.
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Thank you
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wow i love the snapshot.
good composition.
that train is ace.
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That early morning light does wonders for how things look, especially in India. Sadly those locos got neglected, and have now almost all been cut up for scrap.
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