Rural

By: Bharath

Oct 06 2008

Category: Bharath, Daily Photo

The guard blows his whistle and waves his flag, the driver acknowledges and lets out a toot and there is a mad scramble to get inside the coaches. Complete with mangy dogs, this typical and rural scene on the Indian Railways is repeated across thousands of stations every single day.

9 Responses to “Rural”

  1. 6 Oct 2008 at 9:42 pm Paul

    this train looks different, is this s different gauge? very nice photo too.

  2. 7 Oct 2008 at 11:15 pm afrin

    Yea, the train looks like something out of a 1940s movie. Or something. Where was this anyway?

  3. 23 Nov 2008 at 4:04 pm Pranav

    Hovering over the image, it says Umranala. Is this on one of the passenger trains between Nagpur and Jabalpur? http://www.cleartrip.com/trains/stations/show/ULA is where I discovered it :)

  4. 23 Nov 2008 at 5:16 pm Bharath

    Yes, Pranav. It is from one of those trains. However, the station is Saoner and not Umranala.

  5. 24 Nov 2008 at 12:18 am Transport India Daily Photo - India | Visually | Everyday

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  6. 24 Nov 2008 at 12:57 am Pranav

    Make up your mind, is this Saoner, Umranala or Itwari ? and you had the time to run on the other side of the track and click another awesome photo?

  7. 24 Nov 2008 at 11:33 am Pranav

    oops, i read it as this railway ’station’ and not railway ’system’

  8. 24 Nov 2008 at 4:09 pm abhi

    its good

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