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updated : 2024-12-02
As India's railways modernised, steam workings became harder to find and visits to sheds were often a good way to fill the gaps between trains and to find some of the older or rarer classes. The depots themselves varied enormously, from large roundhouses to tiny sheds looking after one or two locos.
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.
