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5 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
The Eastern Railway covered a relatively small geographical area, north and north west of Calcutta, including some very busy main and suburban lines. It was primarily a broad gauge operation with a few interesting narrow gauge lines. Coverage here is limited to a single visit to Katwa in 1986.
North Eastern Railway
5 photos
updated : 2024-12-02
The North Eastern Railway operated a large network of metre gauge lines running across the north of India from Agra in the west, almost to the border with Bangladesh. By 1986 a number of lines had been converted to broad gauge but there was still plenty of metre gauge steam to be seen.
Northern Railway
17 photos
updated : 2024-12-03
The Northern Railway operated a complex network of broad gauge lines serving the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh together with a metre gauge network in Rajasthan. Steam was still fairly common on the broad gauge around cities such as Lucknow and Moradabad when we visited in 1986.
South Eastern Railway
30 photos
updated : 2024-10-18
The South Eastern Railway succeeded the former Bengal Nagpur Railway in eastern central India, linking Calcutta with Nagpur on the route to Bombay and to Waltair on the route to Madras. It was principally a broad gauge operation with some significant narrow gauge lines and still used some steam in 1986.
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.
