Dawn arrival
It's 7.30am and, while the sun is coming up, the mist still hangs in the air from the overnight cold as well as the many fires used to cook and take the chill off folk at this time of day.
On the platform at Shahi station there's a healthy sprinkling of passengers anticipating the arrival of the 7.15am Pilibhit - Izatnagar service (train 52208), which is seen here pulling into the station. Alco YDM4 metre-gauge unit 6515 is doing the honours.
The train will spend time here waiting for the 6.20am Izatnagar - Aishbagh express to pass through on the centre track before carrying on with its journey. The route is single track and token operated.
Note the raised platform faces on the right, and the section on the left beside the train - this was advanced infrastructure work ahead of conversion of the route to broad gauge.
The atmospheric mist proved transient and, by the time the train got going again some 12 minutes later, it had all but evaporated.
The whole scene, for me, just summed up the charm of the now largely lost metre-gauge lines over there. I've tried to give it an artistic twist, which may not be everyone's cup of chai. Best viewed large.
7.30am, 12th October 2015
Dawn arrival
It's 7.30am and, while the sun is coming up, the mist still hangs in the air from the overnight cold as well as the many fires used to cook and take the chill off folk at this time of day.
On the platform at Shahi station there's a healthy sprinkling of passengers anticipating the arrival of the 7.15am Pilibhit - Izatnagar service (train 52208), which is seen here pulling into the station. Alco YDM4 metre-gauge unit 6515 is doing the honours.
The train will spend time here waiting for the 6.20am Izatnagar - Aishbagh express to pass through on the centre track before carrying on with its journey. The route is single track and token operated.
Note the raised platform faces on the right, and the section on the left beside the train - this was advanced infrastructure work ahead of conversion of the route to broad gauge.
The atmospheric mist proved transient and, by the time the train got going again some 12 minutes later, it had all but evaporated.
The whole scene, for me, just summed up the charm of the now largely lost metre-gauge lines over there. I've tried to give it an artistic twist, which may not be everyone's cup of chai. Best viewed large.
7.30am, 12th October 2015