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12 photos
updated : 2024-10-16
Gondia Junction is an intermediate station on the SER broad gauge main line, around 100km east of Nagpur on the route to Raipur. There was still a little steam on the BG in 1986 and more on the 762mm gauge lines heading north and south, known as the Satpura Railway, but dieselisation was underway.
Katwa
5 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
Katwa is a small town on the broad gauge 146km north of Calcutta and was the junction of a pair of narrow gauge lines to Burdwan and Ahmadpur. We only spent an afternoon there in 1986 but got a few interesting pictures on both gauges featuring no fewer than four different classes of loco.
Lucknow
13 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
Lucknow is a city in northern India which was the junction of busy broad and metre gauge routes in 1986. It was served by both the Northern and North Eastern Railways, each with its own station, and saw a significant amount of steam working with WP and YP Class Pacifics and WG and YG Class 2-8-2s.
Moradabad
7 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
Moradabad is a major railway junction in northern India. In 1986 there was still a significant amount of steam working, mainly WPs and WGs on the Northern Railway broad gauge lines with a few North Eastern Railway metre gauge trains as well. The broad gauge shed was unusual in being a half roundhouse.
Nagpur
6 photos
updated : 2024-10-14
Nagpur is an important junction in central India, on the cross country route from Bombay to Calcutta. It's also the starting point of the extensive Satpura NG network. There was steam on both gauges in late 1986 with WP and WG classes photographed on the broad gauge and BS Class on the NG.
Raipur
13 photos
updated : 2024-10-18
Raipur is located on the SER's broad gauge main line from Nagpur towards Calcutta but the photos here are mainly from the 74km long narrow gauge line running south to Dhamtari and Rajim. This line used CC Class Pacifics dating from 1906 to 1908 on all services well into the 1980s.
India is a vast country with a rail network to match. Nowadays electrified broad gauge lines are the norm but in the mid 1980s there was still plenty of metre and narrow gauge as well. Not only that, there were still a large number of steam locomotives on all gauges. Most of these pictures were taken on a 1986 trip.
