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| India_Arkonam_engine_shed The Southern Railway's stone-built BG Arkonam engine shed is seen from the west, on a very cloudy and wet day; 24.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Arsikere_engine_shed_sign "Mission Statement" Southern Railway style, for the over-supply of staff! Arsikere engine shed; 28.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| A general view of the Southern Railway MG engine shed at Bangalore City; 29.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| The Southern Railway MG engine shed at Birur was a basic, lightly-built, one-road, one-engine length structure, but to judge by the stone-built water tankhouse, the original shed building had been of the same construction; 28.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Coonor_engine_shed The MG rack railway's main depot is at Coonor, accessed through this delightful entrance; 26.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Coonor_shed Cooner engine shed was equipped with lifting machinery capable of allowing quite heavy repairs to the fleet of Swiss-built rack tanks, but they would also be sent to Perambur Works in Madras for any special repair work; 26.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Coonor_shed_children Wherever one went in India, within seconds of a camera coming into sight, there would be a collection of children - a pleasant hazard of trying to photograph Indian trains! It is sobering to think that this typical quartet, giggling and staring beside Coonor engine shed are all now in their early fifties! 26.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Coonor_shed_staff_models During the visit to Coonor engine shed some of the staff proudly showed the tour group the static locomotive models they had scratch-built from scrap wood and surperbly painted. Excellent representations of a WP Pacific and a local rack tank; 26.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| The north end of Madras Basin Bridge shed where from the spare tenders and spring sets on the ground it is evident that even with Perambur Works nearby, an amount of repair work was carried out at the shed. BG 2-8-2 XD 22494 (NBL 25733/1946) is identified; 1.12.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| The south end of the Southern Railway's Madras Basin Bridge BG engine shed is seen on 1st December 1979 with BG 4-6-2 WP 7154 (Chittaranjan 1965) in the foreground; 1.12.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| The Southern Railway MG half-roundhouse at Mayuram Junction was surrounded by a large field bearing the ashes of many years' burning of coal. Note that apart from locomotives, the depot building was also sheltering a red-painted breakdown crane; 30.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
| India_Mettupalaiyam_MG_shed Mettupalaiyam MG engine shed served the start of the rack railway to Ootacamund. The building remains in use today; 26.11.1979. Roger Griffiths roger.griffiths@hotmail.com |
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