Train Talk (Chai & Choo Choos)

This gentleman could provide the link. After all he was from same general area as the railway.
Lord Linlithgow became Viceroy after New Delhii was built so no road or landmark was named after him but the town of Linlithgow has a restaurant called Delhi's Winter. Does this by any chance refer to Viscount L's last Winter as Viceroy (1942/43)? They even have a Delhi Metro train and a Delhi bus on their home page.

It's how to make money.

This is getting pretty close to home turf. My neighbour the V L pretty much keeps himself to himself. I can comment on Delhi's Winter but not favourably. And if you were planning to take it out with a drone please note that Googlemaps have misplaced it by about 500 metres.

Thanks to Dipyamanbasu who posted this in another thread.

The Matheran is a super little railway that seems to get much less publicity than the DHR, the Kalka-Shimla or the Nilgiri but it is well worth visiting. It could be done as a day trip from Mumbai but a short stay in Matheran is worthwhile as it is a very different sort of town - almost totally traffic free.

Here is a picture of of the soft drinks vendor on the train. Not as smartly dressed as the chaps on the Pakistani train from a few posts back but he seemed happy in his work. Intruding elbows are a serious interference with photography on this line.

For those interested in the Mumbai Ahmedabad Double Decker train: http://www.rediff.com/business/slide...n/20120921.htm

Delhi-Jaipur, Mumbai-Ahmedabad are two of the busiest sectors in Indian Railways. Even though we have Shatabdi and Duronto running in the latter, IR had to to introduce this train to cope up with the traffic. However, I do not expect this train to be an instant hit.
Trains like Falaknuma, Ranchi Shatabdi took 10-15 years to stand up on their feet.
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Reason why Dhanbad Double Decker is not an instant hit is because that particular route consists of mostly Duty Pass Passengers and they prefer to utilise their pass by hopping onto the Second Seating Reserved Coaches of Black Diamond and Coalfield. They actually do not prefer getting into the Double Decker (Not eligible to enter the train with monthly pass and/or timings are odd)

For a minute I thought they bought these coaches from the Dutch, their beatup rundown Schiphol-Amsterdam Centraal & Centraal to Ajax stadium version of the trains

I just finished reading The Iron Sherpa. It is going to be the definitive work on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway for some time to come. I can recommend it anyone, not just the railway enthusiast. There is a lot of technical detail there (which one can skip) but a lot of history, sociology and anectode too.

The last two chapters are about the Raipur Forest Tramway and the Tipong Colliery Railway, respectively. As I confessed in an earlier post I hadn't heard of the former railway till a few weeks ago.

As for the chapter on the latter, it contained an interesting snippet of information that was completely new to me: Vol.II, p.363: Of course the basic (vanilla) form of pizza is the Margherita with a spread consisting of just chopped tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and oregano. I knew this had been named after the same Queen.

On page 346 of the same volume there is an illustration plate showing philatelic items connected with the DHR. This has a scaled-down version of a commemorative sheet issued by Bhutan in 1984. I am reproducing it here in full-size as I think it is one of the prettiest representations of a railway on a postage-stamp.

In an earlier post by aarosh (#25) there is a link within a link with this interesting railbus. We must have missed it the first time around.

Again on a lazy sunday, Gaints decimating Panthers;

Browsing through old collections, guess what my kindle dragged in -

From -
Molesworth, Guilford L. (Guilford Lindsey), Sir, 1828-1925; Dadachanji, Faredun K.. Indian railway policy (Kindle Locations 17-22). Baroda, F.K. Dadachanji.

You can get the book from here

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This post is wasted on a minority interest movie thread.

A splendid number that looks like it has been filmed in a real coach rather than a mock-up.

Part 3 of The Indian Hill Railways films on BBC4 last night (in UK), but it can be seen on bbc4 internet on the iplayer.
They were commenting on the fact that most of the rolling stock is original but that steam has been replaced by diesel, including four Rail Cars that were originally used by The Viceroy and leading Politicians to get to Summerhill, the Viceroys private station. It stated that there are still four in operation and showed one in operation full of fare paying passengers and another which must have been 'garaged' at Simla as it was immediately available to take officials, police etc, to collect two females, mother and daughter, who had 'jumped' off a bridge just 500 metres from the station itself.
Very good programme, I think that is the third time I have seen it.
Regards to all

What train was that ? Looked like III Ladies Compartment

In fact I posted it on this thread (#808) along with the "original version". It's just that I find that Indian films have the hereditary aspect in common with Indian politics. I moved from India to Germany in 1972 and post-1972 Bollywood is a complete blank to me. I found a VCD of this 1975 film on a recent trip to India. The "drag artist" Rishiraj Kapoor (father of the Ranbir Kapoor being discussed on the other thread) was the son of Raj Kapoor and as a child actor played the role of the young Raj Kapoor in a 1971 film "Mera Naam Joker".
Here is a delightful song from that film (Rishiraj playing the mouth-organ). The stanza from 1:00 when the choo-choo comes in translates:

Two partridges before a partridge
Two partridges behind a partridge
A partridge in front, a partridge behind
Tell, how many partridges?

The female voice in both clips is that of Asha Bhonsle.

Apologies for missing the previous post. I also managed to miss the clip from "Some Like it Hot" which is my all time favourite film. This colour stuff will never catch on.

In the last link it looks like we are on the metre gauge but I didn't get a good enough look at the loco. Just watching the camel riding gave me lower back twinges.