Early morning scene ROYAPURAM WAP-7 sleeping as ERODE WAP-4 like Megatron, glows its red eye as it gets ready to haul my train, VENAD Express
Rolling down with petrol Green beauty from VISAKHAPATANAM rolling down Akamala mountain range with loaded BTPN consist
Rural sceneToken exchange, roof top travelers, station with no platform of Ajanti village, all in memories as the line is closed for gauge conversion
End of an era Final month of METER GUAGE operation, engineer & flagman watch the broad gauge construction activities as they reverse YDM-4 for next run
Unspotted WAP-4 Presumed that I had spotted almost all WAP-4 locos of ERODE shed with largest fleet of WAP-4 locos but unspotted ones still keep coming
Untimely MEMUA MEMU service which is not of much use between Kollam Jn and Thrivananthapuram Central but gets filled after Thrivananthapuram Central
Odd Utkrisht carriageColorful Utkrisht carriage was looking odd in the blue carriage consist of Palaruvi Express powered by ARAKKONAM WAP-1
Colorful consist of Trivandrum-Kozhikode Jan Shatabdi express
As chugging echos Chugging of ALCo was reverberating on the surrounding hills as it climbs Akamala mountains with Garib Rath Express
22 years of service 22 years old ALCo, now with PONMALAI shed ripping through outskirts of Palakkad town with Madurai Jn bound AMRITA Express
Climbing with ease ERODE WAP-4 climbing Akamala mountain range with 24 carriages Mangala Lakshwadeep Express with ease, passing the dry paddy fields
Alappuzha-Ernakulam passenger crawls over the 1Km long Kumbalam-Aroor bridge over Kaithapuzha Lake
An express train to Delhi heads over the "holy" River Ganges at Allahabad, the scene a few weeks earlier of Kumbh Mela - the largest human gathering on earth as approx 120 million people... (more)
The mornings chores carry on as normal against the backdrop of express trains going to and from Calcutta.