Just minutes earlier, this back street had been a hive of activity with a wedding in full swing, carpenters using the tracks as their workshop, street hairdressers, shoe stalls, butchers and resid... (more)

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Mixed gauge diamond! 2 feet 6 inch gauge ZB class,2-6-2 No 119 crosses the 5 feet 6 inch gauge track as it leaves Petlad, Gujurat, in 1989. The loco was built in Yugoslavia, now Croatia in 1959.

2 local girls ignore metre gauge YP 2358 as it leaves Kodaikanal Road with the Madurai Tirupati Express (note the headboard). This line is now converted to 5 feet 6 inch gauge.

The suburban newtork of Calcutta is often overlooked in favour of its bigger and better known competitor in Mumbai, however it is just as colourful and fascinating and provides the outsider with j... (more)

Every year, in the Hindu months of Ashadh(June-July), about 350,000 devotees walk all the way from Dehu and Alandi to the holy town of Pandharpur. The devotees known as "Warkaris", perform collec... (more)

Pune-Mumbai Deccan express running parallel to river Indrayani at Kamshet .

Yeshvatpur bound Karnataka Sampark Kranti express through a hill cutting near Adarki station.

23 coach long Nizamuddin-Yesvantpur Sampark Kranti express negotiating almost circular Daundaj curvemore)

East German built Bo Bo electric loco No 7370, climbs out of the enormous open cast coal pit at Pingzhuang. Note a similar train in opposite direction and steam loco at top of picture.

The harsh mountains take on unreal hues under an impossibly azure sky. A pair of decorated QJs with 6638 piloting, drift lazily (and economically) downhill on the sharp curved approach to the famo... (more)

All was absolutely still and overnight mists still lingered. At 0700 the sun was yet to rise in Jingpeng valley. A rising crescendo of sound from an unseen source was building until - finally, th... (more)

Nothing quite evoked the word 'atmosphere' as much as when the great wooden barn doors were opened for us at Huludao MPD to reveal this glorious sight. The soft sighing of locomotives in light ste... (more)