All the narrow gauge railways should be done broad gauge as early as possible. from Nagpur to Nagbhid there are lot of passengers but moth of them not travling by ralway. also time taken & railway stations are not known by passengers. also i heard that it taking to much of time to travel & today time most valuable for everyone than money. so pls. my requst is to do brodgauge fast.
All the narrow gauge railways should be done broad gauge as early as possible. from Nagpur to Nagbhid there are lot of passengers but moth of them not travling by ralway. also time taken & railway stations are not known by passengers. also i heard that it taking to much of time to travel & today time most valuable for everyone than money. so pls. my requst is to do brodgauge fast.
The entire track & infrastructure shall be nationalized. The line shall be converted into broad guage. It should be extended upto Mahur (Matapur)the holy place of Godess Renuka & linked with Amravati-Narkhed track. Railways will get huge passenger traffic & revenue.
A very informative article and very well written. Indian Railways is full of surprises and Shakuntala Rail is one them. In 1992 I have witnessed a railway employee at Yeshwantpur railway station, Bangalore, carrying kerosene lamps and climbing up the signal towers to place the lamps in the signals during evenings. The glow from these kerosene lamps used to act as red and green signals to guide the trains! I hope they must have switched over to electrical signalling by now.
I am talking about the year 1986/1987 . Before the train approaches a Railway cross, the driver stops the train, gets down and closes the railway gate. The driver , then moves the train across the Railway gate. After, it has crossed over, the train is again stopped, so that the Guard of the train can get down and open the closed railway gate. Does anyone KNOW OF THIS QUEER PHENOMENON ? I don't know whether thins have changed after 30 years ! Whether they have appointed GATEKEEPERS for these railway crossings. What I am referring to is about a railway crossing right across the Pune - Solapur Highway !
Re: Engine driver gets down and closes Railway gate for train to
by Ramesh M on Sep 20, 2015 10:55 AM
I think this should be called a "roadway crossing", not a railway crossing ;-)
I am talking about the year 1986/1987 . Before the train approaches a Railway cross, the driver stops the train, gets down and closes the railway gate. The driver , then moves the train across the Railway gate. After, it has crossed over, the train is again stopped, so that the Guard of the train can get down and open the closed railway gate. Does anyone KNOW OF THIS QUEER PHENOMENON ? I don't know whether thins have changed after 30 years ! Whether they have appointed GATEKEEPERS for these railway crossings. What I am referring to is about a railway crossing right across the Pune - Solapur Highway !
Cell tower companies one would imagine, are modeled like Shakuntala. Because the hand-offs between the infrastructures is well defined. May be even better defined in the train system.
Strangely, many an Indian would prefer a train journey to a bus or plane even today. If only, the quality - hygiene on the train and at the stations, is taken care, we will be transformed. We need change and renewal as we move along, we are sometimes probably too obsessed with our history.
The real question to be asked is, can small companies individually bring in capital and technology to manage the operations across the country? My fear is that a prototypical models will be tried again and will be hyped up as progress, without understanding the challenges and economics at scale.
On the other hand, NOFN (National Optic Fibre Network), a monolithic exercise plans to lay the optic fibres which begin somewhere and reach nowhere ! When faced with tough questions, the Babus say they run from Delhi to Districts, Taluks and Panchayats. The cities are absent because they get too conspicuous and demand performance !
