Showing posts with label Railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Railways. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 December 2017

When a passenger train got stuck in traffic in the midst of road

The sight of the train in the midst of the traffic, may come as a surprise for you.

It got stuck amid vehicles on the busy road

That's actually, the train that runs in Northern MP. It runs on the narrow gauge railway line, from Gwalior to Sheopur.

The train runs through the city and the narrow gauge railway track is laid in the middle of the road. When someone parked the car in the middle of the road, and went away, the train driver had no option but to stop.

Soon, there were vehicles all over the road. There was a major traffic jam. People had to push the car away from railway line, and finally the train moved ahead. The photo circulated on WhatsApp and was carried in Dainik Bhaskar's website too.

Friday, 1 April 2016

Someday I may sit in this fascinating railways trolley and roll down towards horizon

There is a certain romance associated with railways.

In childhood, everything about trains fascinated [me and many other kids of my age].

One would ask elders questions about everything, from the unusual looking coaches to switches, the trains and the chains, everything.

The sight of a trolley moving fast on the railway line beside your train's track was the most fascinating, one. Yes, I liked them more than aero-planes or jets. I still don't know why.

The staff would push it for a while and it would gather momentum in no time, seeming to run without any engine, often outpacing the slowly moving train at the outer.

Even today, I am yet to come out of this fixation. I liked the engine, the guards' bogey in passenger train and wanted to get into them. I could do all that by the time was a teenager.

Travelling in the guards' bogey for hours, in a hot summer, with hardly any water, was an experience. But I am yet to sit on this track inspection trolley-van. May be, one day, I would be there too.