Month: October 2013

Details and descriptions of the all the WDM (Broad Gauge, Diesel, Mixed traffic) series ALCO locomotives of the Indian Railways.

Northern Railway (NR) and North Eastern Railway (NER) are running special trains between states in the Northernmost sectors of the country such as Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Bihar bypassing Delhi to clear extra rush of passengers on occasion of the 2013 Diwali/Chhath Puja festival…

Locomotives (popularly called train “engines”) are the heart and soul of the Railway system. Locomotives give life to coaches and wagons which are otherwise dead hunks of metal which can best qualify as shelters during rains, converting them into trains. Locomotives work based on a really simple principle. Be it…

An explanatory chapter about the structure, physical design and terminologies used for Indian Railways diesel and electric locomotives

North Western Railway (NWR), Indian Railways’ zone with least percentage of electrified track after SWR and the zone with the most single line track will run a lot of special trains this festival season, mostly short or overnight services between towns and cities in Rajasthan and surrounding states. Click on the…

Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) will run special trains between Mumbai and Delhi this Diwali season via Vadodara – Kota and Nashik – Bhopal respectively. In addition to that, CR will run special trains between destinations in Maharashtra and surrounding states for Diwali and Chhath Puja festivals. Here…

South Eastern Railway (SER) headquartered at Kolkata Santragachi and Southern Railway Chennai and Trivandrum divisions will run special trains towards the Southern Parts of the country (including Odisha) on the occasion of the Durga Puja – Diwali festival season 2013. These trains will connect Kolkata with Puri, Vizag, Vijayawada, Bangalore,…

North Eastern Railway (NER), North Central Railway (NCR), Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) will run hundreds of special trains to and from Mumbai from/to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the Puja/Chhath Puja – Bakrid – Diwali festival season this year. This is the most busy time of the…

Locomotives can run under their own power or can run drawing power from elsewhere, converting fuel into pure kinetic energy that you can feel just by looking at it. And these are just two types of locomotives. There are many more types and identifying these locomotives is even a major…

As it has been so thoughtfully taught to us by everyone from James Cameron to Vijay Mallya, winners travel First Class while economy is for weiners (It does not matter that both these “First Classes” have since gone under). And when it comes to traveling in style over long distances in…