Railbus

By: Bharath

Sep 22 2008

Category: Bharath, Daily Photo

5 Comments »

Quite possibly the quirkiest “train” that runs on the Indian Railways. This railbus runs from the town of Shimoga in Karnataka to Talguppa on the foothills of the Western Ghats. This railbus basically conists of an ancient Ashok Leyland engine tacked on to a hand built body and chasis. It is driven exactly like a bus, except that there is no steering!

5 Responses to “Railbus”

  1. 22 Sep 2008 at 4:40 pm afrin

    Do people really even use this? It looks broken down.

  2. 22 Sep 2008 at 4:53 pm Bharath

    Yes. Lots of people travel on it as it reaches a few areas where roads don’t exist.

    I took the picture at a station called Sagar where the entire train including the driver gets down and heads across the road for breakfast!

  3. 23 Sep 2008 at 5:13 pm Paul

    weird

  4. 7 Aug 2009 at 12:45 pm RanTen

    Thats India

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