INDIA | Railways

[satsk3]

Originally Posted by engineer.akash

Mysore railway station

Pic Courtsey: Pramath (irfca)

[satsk3]

WDP4_hauled Shatabdi towards Mysore

Pic Courtsey: Pawan Koppa (irfca)

Guwahatti Rajadhani ascends a grade near the Kamakhya station

Pic Courtsey: Harsh Dinesh (irfca)

[satsk3]

Originally Posted by todscreen

heres on near Patna, Bihar

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cc:aksveer

[satsk3]

Originally Posted by todscreen

Choo choo at the Howrah Rail Museum

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cc:diptman

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cc:rahul 460

[satsk3]

Kasara Ghat Bridge, Maharashtra.

Pic Courtsey: Arvind Prasad (irfca)

Tapti River Bridge, (Bhusawal-Maharashtra)

Pic Courtsey: Abhijit (irfca)

Ulhas River Brige, Maharashtra.

Pic Courtsey: Arzan Kotval (irfca)

[satsk3]

Rajgir bound Shramjeevi Express passes under the DMRC's under-construction Yamuna Bank - Vaishali line

Pic Courtsey: Ankit Bharaj

[harsh1802]

Grt work man. Keep it up!

[New York Morning]

Very nice pics, thanx!

[VikramRao75]

Nice pics, one thing thats strikes me is that old colonial style railway station, its refreshing to see that they havent gone for that flashy glass and flat tv screen look most of us are doing now. Its what a nice hill station should look like and it evokes a feeling of happiness and old country that we seem to have lost. good going on the pictures, we used to live in this town called Nagrota, and we used to drive up to Udhampur on the weekends (1983) nice to see theres a train that goes there now.

[VikramRao75]

Originally Posted by Kuvvaci

very nice...

is there any HSR project?

I hope so, but I also hope that all new development keeps in mind India's indigenous peoples and there needs as well, Im so impressed to see that trains in India still look like trains and not space ships, albeit there still is scope for alot of improvement, trains in India still evoke the past with there sounds and rocking at night, a trip on an Indian train is almost never forgotten.

[VikramRao75]

Originally Posted by Svartmetall

An interesting documentry on Indian Railways, yes it's a little twee, but it gives an impression of what they are like!

i saw this, this is like 20 years old though, I saw it on pbs in America.

[hkskyline]

India not to impose service tax on goods sent by rail

NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The Indian government has withdrawn a proposal to impose service tax on goods transported by rail, a government official said on Tuesday.

"Government has decided to exempt transport of goods in containers by rail from service tax, scheduled from Sept 1," Hemambika R. Priya, spokeswoman for Central Board of Excise and Customs, told Reuters.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had proposed to impose 10.3 percent service tax on transport of goods by rail in the federal budget.

[mrmocha413]

Lovely pics, I'm hoping in my lifetime I get to see India have true High Speed Rail, there is enormous potential for it to flourish.

[sumner78]

Hello Everybody, I am a train fanatic and on my recent trip to India which was this Februrary of 2010, I shot these videos of trains and I put them on youtube, if anyone is interested you can check them out, here are some of the links.

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/7/r6p0EhGamWs

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/6/992Sqazl2xg

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/5/Kv2swu_1aBM

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/4/c2ulfRWNccw

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/3/ARNrwbdGo78

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/2/XaKIzlKupHw

http://208.117.236.69/user/SOLANKI78#p/u/0/bZxjVsuqxlM

I hope you like these videos.

[harikumar]

Hi all,

Since I could find no thread on Indian Railways, I decided it was time to add one.

16th April, 1853...............The Beginning

The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane.

The idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.

The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm "amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns."
The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent.

In south the first line was opened on Ist July, 1856 by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles. In the North a length of 119 miles of line was laid from Allahabad to Kanpur on 3rd March 1859. The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic on 19th October, 1875.

These were the small beginnings which is due course developed into a network of railway lines all over the country. By 1880 the Indian Railway system had a route mileage of about 9000

http://www.indianrail.gov.in/images/...ig3_white2.jpg


LOGO:

http://www.seeklogo.com/images/I/Ind...eklogo.com.gif

Trains between stations :

http://www.indianrail.gov.in/between_Imp_Stations.html

Railway Map :

http://www.indianrail.gov.in/images/rail-map.jpg


Introduction :

Part I :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoPmV...eature=related

Part II :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zf54...eature=related

Part III :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2io...eature=related

Part IV :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4xV...eature=related

Part V :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8lNg...eature=related

[wolf839]

[harikumar]

http://www.delhicapital.com/images/metro-map-phase2.jpg

[harikumar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_zen...eature=related

[harikumar]

Palace on Wheels


http://www.palaceonwheels.net/new/the_train.htm

[harikumar]

Railway Tourism :

http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/tag...wayTourism.pdf (13.13 MB)