Railways of India

12th February 2006 to 28th February 2006

Photographs taken on the Railway Touring Company's tour of India, February 2006, featuring the metre gauge Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the two foot gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the two foot six inch gauge Kamla-Shimla Railway, as well as the National Rail Museum in Delhi and, on the five foot six inch gauge main line, the Fairy Queen, the oldest working locomotive in the world.

Chennai: Southern Railway regional museum at Perambur, with Fowler ploughing engine 1280x778 PICT0143b.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Perambur museum: steam breakdown crane 1280x756 PICT0146b.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Perambur museum: metre- gauge locomotive 1280x721 PICT0147a.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Perambur locomotive works: preserved 4-4-0 built by North British in 1909 1280x724 PICT0152a.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00
Perambur locomotive works: preserved metre- gauge locomotive 1280x726 PICT0154a.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Chennai: preserved locomotive outside railway offices in city centre 1280x719 PICT0166a.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Chennai: preserved locomotive outside railway office in city centre 1280x718 PICT0167a.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00	Changing the points at a passing loop 1280x921 PICT0270b.jpg 2006-02-12 00:00:00
Chennai: Train 6627 West Coast Express waits to depart for Coimbatore and beyond 1280x836 PICT0200a.jpg 2006-02-13 00:00:00	Nilgiri Mountain Railway: RTC charter to Udagamandalam ready to depart from Mettupalayam, propelled by Class X 0-8-2T 37391 1280x721 PICT0211a.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	37391 taking water at Kallar with the RTC charter from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam 1280x801 PICT0217b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	37391 taking water at Adderly with the RTC charter from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam 1280x840 PICT0225b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00
37391 taking water at Adderly with the RTC charter from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam 1280x779 PICT0226b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	RTC charter from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam at Hillgrove 1280x724 PICT0235b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	RTC charter water stop at Kateri Road 1280x880 PICT0238b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	Photo run-past by 37391 for Railway Touring Company 1196x960 PICT0242b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00
Class X 4-cylinder compound 0-8-2T 37391, built 1952 by SLM Winterthur 1280x723 PICT0243a.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	RTC charter arrived at Udagamandalam (Ooty) 1280x720 PICT0251b.jpg 2006-02-14 00:00:00	Service train from Ooty reversing into Coonoor station. The line from OOty is left centre, that to Metupalayam at extreme right 1280x801 PICT0258b.jpg 2006-02-15 00:00:00	Class YDM4 6545 arrived at Coonoor with train from Ooty, 6157 waiting to depart with RTC charter 1280x840 PICT0260b.jpg 2006-02-15 00:00:00
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway: Class B 0-4-0SWT 804 at Siliguri depot 1280x719 PICT0333a.jpg 2006-02-17 00:00:00	Oil-burning class B 787 at Siliguri depot 1280x842 PICT0338b.jpg 2006-02-17 00:00:00	Darjeeling Himalayan Railway: Siliguri locomotive depot 1280x842 PICT0339a.jpg 2006-02-17 00:00:00	Class B 780, 788 and 804 at Siliguri depot 1280x758 PICT0340a.jpg 2006-02-17 00:00:00