Year: 2013

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…

Southern Railway (SR) will run special trains for holiday travelers during the Deepawali/Puja/Dasara festival season of 2013. Here is the list of those trains primarily serving those areas under Southern Railway, Kerala and Tamilnadu. These include trains from Nagercoil to Chennai and Hyderabad and from Trivandrum to Chennai and (surprise,…

Someone has said that the steam locomotive is the closest to a living thing among all that Man has ever created, yet. But I take it further saying that the locomotive, steam or diesel or electric or nuclear or whatever, is the closest mankind will ever get to creating a…

Western Railway (WR) is running Special trains to be run for the festival and holiday season of Diwali 2013 serving the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan primarily and also between Delhi and Mumbai. These special trains will run from from Indore, Mumbai Central and Bandra Terminus and Ahmedabad to various…