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One of the main reasons for breaking of snack trays or defective snack trays in
#VandeBharat
and other trains! Even with photographic evidence, whiners would say that I pass on the blame only to passengers!
#IndianRailways
#Responsibility
#passengers
This pic taken by a passenger in the EC coach of the Howrah-Ranchi Shatabdi is a symbol of how
#IndianRailways
is changing - a smartly dressed ticket examiner, with a Hand Held Terminal (HTT), which simplifies verification and brings transparency in vacant seat allotment!
#change
The CST-Madgoan Vistadome coach service! Next time, ditch the flight and take this coach! Look at the interiors, the seats and the amount of natural light!
#IndianRailways
#travel
The Vande Bharat train on speed trial between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, passing through Valsad station - higher speed but the horn sound is the same and so is the rhythm of the wheels on tracks. We won't miss the sound of our regular express trains! 🙂
#VandeBharat
#speedtest
The Devi Temple in Kottamkulakara in Kollam district in Kerala has a tradition called the Chamayavilakku festival.
This festival is celebrated by men who are dressed as women. The above picture is that of the man who won the first prize for the make up In the contest.
#festival
The Senior Divisional Operations Manager, Bilaspur,
@secrail
, Mr.Ravish Kumar Singh decided to drop his driver home as a retirement gift.
#IndianRailways
#retirement
These cutees are said to be the Punganur calves from Chittoor district of AP. They are an endangered breed as it is believed there are only 500 to 600 such cute cows/calves in the country. Please help preserve them.
#AndhraPradesh
#cows
#endangered
In Rajasthan, it is believed that the cake cutting tradition is replaced by a fruit cutting during the birthdays of children. This tradition is spreading across rural Rajasthan, thereby giving a boost to horticulture.
#birthday
#fruit
For two hours every morning and evening, both the platforms 1 and 2 of the Sasaram railway station turn into a coaching class for young people who are aspirants for all competitive exams. The main reason is there is 24 hours power supply in the station.
#IndianRailways
Boy crossed the river which was flowing above the danger mark. He reached safely but was given a warm and traditional welcome by his father and elder brother. These are the values which make our country great! 😃😛😂
#SafetyFirst
#discipline
The speed trial of the
#VandeBharat
trainset - initially the chirping of the birds can be heard louder than the sound of the train! And the speed trial view from the inside as well!
#IndianRailways
#speed
Yesterday, a person was caught red-handed removing a fancy tap from 12615 Grand Trunk Express at Chennai Central station. These taps were later recovered from his premises. This is the extent of pilferage of railway property. Obviously, he is under arrest.
#IndianRailways
#crime
You can take a railwayman out of Railways but you can't take railways out of a railwayman - this is the gate of the house of a retired motorman or loco pilot at Sealdah!
#IndianRailways
While we all admired our young lady diplomat who spoke at the
#UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly
yesterday, this is Ms.Saima Saleem, her Pakistani counterpart and the first visually impaired officer of the Pakistani diplomatic service, performing the duty for her country.
#women
Two legends of two generations in one frame - P.T.Usha and
#PVSindhu
, as a child when the former stayed with them in Hyderabad when she came for an inter-Railway sports tournament!
#sports
#legends
The trial run of the 1855 manufactured EIR-21, which was the first loco to haul a train from Howrah to Delhi in 1866. There will be a run on August 15th on the occasion of
#AzadiKaAmritMahotsav
!
#IndianRailways
#heritage
The erstwhile Guard's cabin now reads like this! There was a time when in any Railway Division only two Managers existed Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM included) and Catering Manager.
#IndianRailways
All those cynics and so-called intellectuals mocking the speed of
#VandeBharat
and commenting on how the trains in the West and China have moved far ahead in speeds should know why we lagged behind. They should know the history of high-speed railways in India. A small thread!
How many of you have this childhood memory during vacations, especially those from South India - of the grandmother mixing rice with pickle or curry or sambhar or rasam and then everybody would get a morsel and wait for their turn?
#childhoodmemories
#vacations
Gurdip Singh Anand, a prominent industrialist of Coimbatore, beautifully rendering the Amman devotional song in Tamil, proving that devotion and music have no religious or linguistic boundaries. He is the owner of Efab Cables.
#HappyVijayadashami
The moment when two
#VandeBharat
trains - Chennai-Coimbatore Vande Bharat Express and Mysore-Chennai Vande Bharat Express - meet each other, somewhere between Katpadi and Jolarpet!
#VandeBharatExpress
#DidYouKnow
There wasn't a single loss of life during the construction of the Statue of Unity - the highest safety record for a project of such a magnitude anywhere in the world - a fact we came to know from the presentation by the Project Director before our visit!
#SafetyFirst
Believe it or not, this is the great Vyjayanthimala performing on stage last weekend at the age of 90. Age may have limited her movement a bit but certainly not her grace, elegance and stage presence! 🙏
#Dancer
#performance
@smitaprakash
Awesome pilot, with a great sense of humour - please listen to his announcement in English and Punjabi, which will certainly bring a smile! 😀😛😂
#pilots
#Announcement
@IndiGo6E
Source - received on WA!
The bride is getting ready to roll into the Kashmir valley - the J&K Vande Bharat, with that special windshield which has tungsten filaments between the layers of glass and can heat up to 30 deg C, to prevent accumulation of snow on the glass.
#IndianRailways
#VandeBharatTrain
A freak accident - a long piece of loose cable, taken by a bird somehow came in contact with the OHE wire and the other end came down and touched a TTE's head. He suffered burn injuries but is out of danger and under treatment - at Kharagpur station yesterday afternoon!
#Accident
The Loco Pilot of a Vande Bharat train saw a cow on the track and applied emergency brakes but still the cow partially came underneath but was saved! 🙏
#IndianRailways
#VandeBharat
#Safety
Some of these dishes have made stations popular - for all those who love food at railway stations! And for the Raja of Tundla -
@Sanjay_IRTS
- the Aloo Tikki there figures in this video!
#IndianRailways
#food
A scary satellite video of the Indonesian earthquake. The entire land mass is getting shifted! Unbelievable! What a massive transformation in a matter of seconds! And we take life for granted. Never underestimate the power of nature.
#Indonesia
#earthquake
#indonesiaearthquake
Soon when our
#VandeBharat
trains start realising their true potential and the bullet train finds its way, we should implement this in our country as well. Soon, there shouldn't be flights between Chennai and Bengaluru. Even for the sake of environment!
Those who are mocking the train's exterior have to realize that the production cost of each LHB coach varies between Rs.2.5 to 3 crore while an Alstom Metro coach costs about Rs.10-11 crore per coach. If we can pay that cost, you will get that quality.
#IndianRailways
#coaches
Another instance of stone pelting on the Mysuru-Chennai Vande Bharat Express in Bengaluru division, which damaged the window glasses in four coaches. It seems like an organized stone pelting. Thankfully, there was no injury to any of the passengers! Sad day!
#IndianRailways
Lunchime humour - When Tamil Nadu wants water, it has to be given by Karnataka.
When Tamil Nadu wanted a CM, it was given by Karnataka.
When Tamil Nadu wanted a superstar, it was given by Karnataka.
And even when Tamil Nadu wanted a jail cell, it was given by Karnataka. 😀😛😂
Career update - Time to move on from the Chennai division, after the completion of my tenure of 2 years. I have now been transferred to ICF and will be posted as a Financial Adviser. Proud to be a part of the
#VandeBharat
team. I shall be taking up my assignment shortly.
Such a beautiful drone capture of the farmlands of the Godavari delta region in
#AndhraPradesh
, with a road passing right through and settlements by the side of the road, with rows of paddy fields behind them! Pic courtesy, Din Dan Drone!
#travel
#fields
#dronephotography
This picture will haunt me and probably, all of you, for a long time. This is perhaps the most terrible accident I have seen in my service. The horribly mangled coaches are probably the ones hot by Train no.12864 coming from the other side, within seconds of the derailment.
Career update - to new beginnings - taken charge as Financial Advisor/General at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Perambur! A different office, different experience but equally good people around! I am sure all your good wishes are with me.
#Career
#transfer
The first pile is cast and the construction activity has formally begun. The citizens of Chennai can expect a world class station at Chennai Egmore in 2 years. As the Chief Project Manager of this prestigious project, you have my word.
#Chennai
#IndianRailways
Finally, located the beast - the WAG-12 - at Jolarpet station! Spacious ergonomic cab, lovely air-conditioning and a good front view! And yes, that selfie is for evidence! 😀 One item ticked off from my
#bucketlist
!
#IndianRailways
#locomotive
@IndianTrainFan
There are currently more than 20 countries where passenger trains run at a speed of 200 kmph or more; but when India ran the 1st Rajdhani Express in 1969, we were the 2nd country in Asia & among a handful of countries in the world to run trains in excess of 100kmph.
#perspective
My inspection of cleanliness in Navjivan Express yesterday - bidis and ghutka clogging the wash basin in the GS coach; someone dumped a tissue roll in the bio-toilet; despite the availability of dustbins, orange and groundnut peels dumped beneath the seats! 🙄🤦
#IndianRailways
This Swedish lady who is waiting for the train to return home after work and has bought a burger for her dinner, is Ylva Johansson, the Minister of Labour in Sweden. She has no caravan of cars, no line of guards but yes, Sweden is one of the most developed nations in the world.
The Vijayawada Vande Bharat that had arrived a while ago and stands opposite the platform where I am, ready to board the locomotive for the regular footplate inspection. Now Chennai has 4 VBs - 3 from Central and one from Egmore! Any complaints of regional bias?
#IndianRailways
This is a 7-year old girl, Vaishnavi. She can chant the entire Bhagavad Gita of 18 chapters and 700 slokas. The beauty of the girl is that she can recite whichever sloka she is asked. Some of the Sanskrit scholars testing her. 🙏
#BhagavadGita
#talent
Mumbai last night at 9 pm - Atal Setu, longest sea bridge is clearly visible - Photo taken on a flight by a senior retired railway officer!
#Mumbai
#AtalSetu
This was bound to happen when successive state governments outsourced the entire weight of public transport to the already overburdened suburban railway system without investing in alternate modes for decades. Again I ask, why didn't the Metro come up 20 years ago?
#transport
What a capture - four generations of traction - an ALCO, WDP-4, WAP-7, and
#VandeBharat
- all standing in one line at Bengaluru! Though the gap between the WDP-4 and WAP-7 isn't quite a generation! Pic courtesy, Rahul Nivascar!
#IndianRailways
#photography
The distance of two hours will be from the suburbs of Chennai to the suburbs of Bengaluru where the Expressway ends. The journey time taken to the city centre is anybody's guess. Vande Bharat would take passengers right to the city centre in a little over 4 hours.
#infrastructure
🚨 Bengaluru-Chennai expressway to take just 2 hrs when inaugurated on Jan, 2024. It takes 4 hrs for Vande Bharat train and 1 hr for flight - Nitin Gadkari
Federal Bank, Kochi branch sanctioned loan to robots manufacturing company. The company personnel brought a robot to receive the loan sanction letter. 🙂
#robots
#Banks
#loans
The wishes of the Bengaluru techies has been fulfilled - the new Mysuru Vande Bharat to Chennai shall stop at Krishnarajapuram. It will take only 3 hours 45 minutes from Chennai to K.R.Puram.
#IndianRailways
#VandeBharat
Daughter scores 96.4% in her Boards and
#PVSindhu
smashes her way into the semifinals! Both happened in a gap of 45 minutes! What a day so far!
#CBSEResult
#Olympics
Miraj station, established in 1886, is one of the three stations in India which was served by all three gauges - BG, MG and NG lines till 1994 - the others being Siliguri and Yellahanka. In this photo, 1st loco - BG, 2nd & 3rd - MG and 4th, NG!
@sambitnk
@SachinKalbag
@aparanjape
This is an important meeting somewhere in Kashmir! But the videographer showed something else which was happening there - brilliant fellow! 😀😛😂
#meetings
#videography