AMJ Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Feel free to add your photos and trip comments. I said I was only going once but January 2010 was my 3rd trip, back there in January 2012. I describe it as a Marmite country, you either love it or loathe it. A small selection of the Indian photos in my gallery (see link in footer). Ex DHR B Class 0-4-0ST 789 Tipong, 22 November 2004 Tinsukia, 23 November 2004 - MG dumped Barry Style in Assam, by 2010 these had all gone! 21/2/2007 Bombay Victoria Terminus or should that be Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Rangtong (DHR) B 802 1/3/2007 DHR B 788 on reverse 1 13/1/2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkDixit Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 AMJ. DHR is my passion and have been attached to it scince I was born.My father was a renowned DHR Senior Track engineer from 1942 to 1974.I have been modelling this narrow gauge from 2006. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted November 7, 2011 Author Share Posted November 7, 2011 Pictures removed from my website (temporarily) and these will be back on line in the next week. Sorry if you are seeing redx above. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted November 16, 2011 Author Share Posted November 16, 2011 New server today, pictures back online Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 At the risk of narrowing "Incredible India" down to just the DHR, can I add a couple of photos from 2009? Having travelled the line and heard how often entire sections are washed away, I can imagine that the DHR must be one of the more challenging places to hold the post of Senior Track Engineer! A particular touch that appealed to me was the series of "road safety" signs that were placed alongside the road and clearly visible from the railway. One example is attached below. An absolutely incredible experience. Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 There are many good signs on the "Hill Cart Road" alongside the DHR. I must dig out one that I have just above Rangtong it suggests that you give blood to the blood bank not onto the road. The DHRS (link in footer) used to sell many of these as fridge magnets and would be good as car stickers rather than kids on board. On the task list this week get a visa ready for when I go (again) in January. Not going to DHR (for a change) but have many other interesting places to go to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 Just finished sorting out the photos from the 3 week trip to India in January. I extended the tour by flying out early and went from Delhi to Agra to see the various World Heritage sites there (Akbars tomb, Baby Taj (Itmad-ud-Daula's Tomb), Red fort and obviously the Taj Mahal). In Delhi I visited Humayun's tomb, Red fort, Qutub Minar, India Gate, Delhi NRM and Rail Bhavan for the plinthed DHR B class. Visited a few railways and depots Had WP 7161 from Delhi to Rewari where they had another BG loco in steam for us. Also went to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the (India-Pakistan) border closing ceremony and shot a few Tigers in the nature reserve at Pench. (No I didn't use a machine gun as per The Itallian Job but used the camera instead!) Got to see/ride trains on the Kangra Valley and Satpur lines prior to the gauge conversion from 2'6" to 5'6" Sat watching a video dad found in the cupboard (remember what those are?) the other night with metre gauge steam trains running the line from Jodhpur to Jaipur. This is now another of the 5'6" gauge lines south west of Rewari. See http://www.rewaristeamloco.com/home/ for details about Rewari steam shed. At rewari they have a Fowler steam roller also got to see another Fowler steam roller in Nagpur. I'll pop some photos up when I get a chance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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