Bareilly, India, 27/12/1993
Photographs of trains and locomotives at Bareilly Junction and Bareilly City locomotive shed, to the east of Delhi.
The tour group arrived at dawn on an overnight train at Bareilly Junction station, which had both metre gauge and broad gauge tracks. Minibuses took the group to a hotel for breakfast before they headed to Bareilly City metre gauge locomotive shed for a look round. Returning to Bareilly Junction station again there were a couple of hours to see what passed through and for a quick visit to the broad gauge locomotive shed, before catching a mid-afternoon train on to Gorakhpur.
By this date broad gauge steam was dying out very rapidly, though there was still considerable activity on the metre gauge due to retaining steam traction until gauge conversion to broad gauge. This made it uneconomic to manufacture metre gauge diesel locomotives which would only be used for a short period. Sadly, Bareilly Junction locomotive shed was home to just a handful of cold broad gauge locomotives.
1-of-13) In the chill of the dawn, a metre gauge YP 4-6-2 simmers at Bareilly Junction station.
2-of-13) A workman clears ashes from the ash-pit alongside metre gauge YG 2-8-2 3484, built by Telco (Tata Engineering and Loco Co.) in 1964, Bareilly City locomotive shed.
3-of-13) Metre gauge YP 4-6-2 2303, built by Krauss-Maffei in 1954, undergoes repair in Bareilly City locomotive shed.
4-of-13) Metre gauge, class YG 2-8-2 4437, built by Telco (Tata Engineering and Loco Co.) in 1959, at Bareilly City locomotive shed.
5-of-13) Metre gauge, class YP 4-6-2 2565, built by Telco (Tata Engineering and Loco Co.) in 1964, at Bareilly City locomotive shed.
6-of-13) Metre gauge, class YP 4-6-2 2269, built by Krauss-Maffei in 1954, and its reflection at Bareilly City locomotive shed, India, 27th December 1993.
7-of-13) Metre gauge, class YG 2-8-2 3543, built by Chittaranjan Loco Works some time between 1969 and 1972, at Bareilly City locomotive shed.
8-of-13) Metre gauge, class YG 2-8-2 3543, built by Chittaranjan Loco Works some time between 1969 and 1972, at the end of the coaling line outside Bareilly City locomotive shed.
9-of-13) Metre gauge, class YG 2-8-2 4437, Telco (Tata Engineering and Loco Co.) in 1959, being coaled by hand outside Bareilly City locomotive shed.
10-of-13) One of the very powerful-looking broad gauge, class WG 2-8-2 locomotives, 10491 (built by Chittaranjan Loco Works in 1966/7), takes water while on a passenger train at Bareilly Junction station.
11-of-13) Broad gauge, class WG 2-8-2 10491 (built by Chittaranjan Loco Works in 1966/7), departs from Bareilly Junction station with a passenger train.
12-of-13) The broad gauge locomotive shed at Bareilly Junction. Disappointingly the shed was apparently derelict. There were just two cold locomotives here, the track was rusty, and the workmen were just standing around. In the foreground is a smokebox door from a steam locomotive.
13-of-13) Derelict and cannibalised broad gauge, class WG 2-8-2 9141 (built by Baldwin in 1955), outside Bareilly Junction locomotive shed.
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