Friday, May 19, 2006
INDIAN RAILWAYS - 3
A FEW FROLICKING FACTS ABOUT I.R. co.
SHORTEST STATION NAME :-
Ib, near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway).
Some station names with three letters are Ait (between Jhansi and Kanpur),
Ara (between Mughalsarai and Patna), Bir (between Khandwa and Itarsi), Mau (between Varanasi and
Gorakhpur), Ata, Kem, Pen, etc. -- there are many others.
Note: "Bad" is a misspelling of "Baad" in the CR timetables.
LONGEST STATION NAME :-
"VENKATANARASIMHARAJUVARIAPETA" (Halt). This is sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed, making it even longer by 3 letters. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway , the first station after Renigunta towards Arakkonam (just within the AP border). Station code VKZ. It is in the Chennai division of SR and not in the Guntakal division of SCR.
SHORTEST STATION NAME :-
Ib, near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway).
Some station names with three letters are Ait (between Jhansi and Kanpur),
Ara (between Mughalsarai and Patna), Bir (between Khandwa and Itarsi), Mau (between Varanasi and
Gorakhpur), Ata, Kem, Pen, etc. -- there are many others.
Note: "Bad" is a misspelling of "Baad" in the CR timetables.
LONGEST STATION NAME :-
"VENKATANARASIMHARAJUVARIAPETA" (Halt). This is sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed, making it even longer by 3 letters. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway , the first station after Renigunta towards Arakkonam (just within the AP border). Station code VKZ. It is in the Chennai division of SR and not in the Guntakal division of SCR.
JAMES BOND
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Friday, May 12, 2006
INDIAN RAILWAYS-2
hi people,
hope you enjoyed my previous postings, feel free to comment about it!
Last time i was telling you people about the blue mountain.
This time i am moving into the bridges in India.
Indian Railways has thousnads of bridges running in its network.
There are bridges on all prominent rivers like GANGA,BRAHMAPUTRA,GODAVARI etc. etc.
The longest bridge in india is on the river GODAVARI with a distance of about 5 kilometers.
The Nehru Setu bridge near Dehri on the river Sone (3.065km, 93 spans, each 30.5m).
The bridge over the Ganga near Patna (~2km).
The Narnarayan Setu bridge over the Brahmaputra at Jogighopa linking it to Pancharatna (in Assam) has 18 spans, each about 120m, with 2 spans of 30.5m, for a total length of 2.3km.
THE TALLEST BRIDGE:-
The bridge on the Panval river (Konkan Railway, Ratnagiri district). The 420m-long bridge was the first one built in India using the incremental launching technique and is 64m tall.
cath you later,
hope you enjoyed reading it.
hope you enjoyed my previous postings, feel free to comment about it!
Last time i was telling you people about the blue mountain.
This time i am moving into the bridges in India.
Indian Railways has thousnads of bridges running in its network.
There are bridges on all prominent rivers like GANGA,BRAHMAPUTRA,GODAVARI etc. etc.
The longest bridge in india is on the river GODAVARI with a distance of about 5 kilometers.
The Nehru Setu bridge near Dehri on the river Sone (3.065km, 93 spans, each 30.5m).
The bridge over the Ganga near Patna (~2km).
The Narnarayan Setu bridge over the Brahmaputra at Jogighopa linking it to Pancharatna (in Assam) has 18 spans, each about 120m, with 2 spans of 30.5m, for a total length of 2.3km.
THE TALLEST BRIDGE:-
The bridge on the Panval river (Konkan Railway, Ratnagiri district). The 420m-long bridge was the first one built in India using the incremental launching technique and is 64m tall.
cath you later,
hope you enjoyed reading it.
Friday, May 05, 2006
INDIAN RAILWAYS-1
Hey guys hope you people enjoyed my previous postings.
As my previous posts tells that i would like to serve the country, and the best i would like to fullfil that is by joining the railways in a big post after qualifiend for IAS.
Basically our country has got one of the biggest systems and the largest network in the world. COOL NA :-).
Hope you guys have heard of the ICF-Integral Coach Factory.It's one of the largest rolling stock manufacturing industry in the world.
It exports rolling stock to various places in the world, pakistan,sri lanka,bangladesh somalia, uganda etc.
Apart from that they also alter engines thats why we find an meter gaue engine running in the narroe gauge lines of the nilagiri railway.From CONNOR to OOTY.
one more intresting fact about these steam engines which pull the trains are that thay are oil fired, meaning that no more use of coal. this alteration was done by the students of REC,TRICHY.
I was soooooooooo lucky to travel by the last coal operated train.it was a great privilege, and now the nilagiri railway has got WORLD HERITAGE STATUS.
The nilagiri railway trains are known as the blue mountain railways, which got its name from the blue moutains, of course.
but those of you who are all thinking that it is the only kind of railway system in the world you are WRONG!.
there are two more railway network which have the common name "THE BLUE MOUNTAIN". one is in south africa and the other one is in sydney ,australia.
ok guys , hope you people liked this one.
unttil my next one.
c ya
As my previous posts tells that i would like to serve the country, and the best i would like to fullfil that is by joining the railways in a big post after qualifiend for IAS.
Basically our country has got one of the biggest systems and the largest network in the world. COOL NA :-).
Hope you guys have heard of the ICF-Integral Coach Factory.It's one of the largest rolling stock manufacturing industry in the world.
It exports rolling stock to various places in the world, pakistan,sri lanka,bangladesh somalia, uganda etc.
Apart from that they also alter engines thats why we find an meter gaue engine running in the narroe gauge lines of the nilagiri railway.From CONNOR to OOTY.
one more intresting fact about these steam engines which pull the trains are that thay are oil fired, meaning that no more use of coal. this alteration was done by the students of REC,TRICHY.
I was soooooooooo lucky to travel by the last coal operated train.it was a great privilege, and now the nilagiri railway has got WORLD HERITAGE STATUS.
The nilagiri railway trains are known as the blue mountain railways, which got its name from the blue moutains, of course.
but those of you who are all thinking that it is the only kind of railway system in the world you are WRONG!.
there are two more railway network which have the common name "THE BLUE MOUNTAIN". one is in south africa and the other one is in sydney ,australia.
ok guys , hope you people liked this one.
unttil my next one.
c ya
MY SUMMER TRIP-2
Ok. guys. hope u enjoyed my previous post ,
From hyderabad i had gone SHIRDI as you all where the body of SAI BABA is laid to R.I.P. It was nice place to be in,but it was crowded. EVen though i'm atheist this place appealed to me. it was good, but very crowded.
you cant reach shirdi by train directly, you need to take a train from secunderabad to manmad or get down at nagarsol from there 70 and 40 kms. respectively.
while travelling in that line u can see amazing mountains and dry land. you pass through aurangabad while travelling to manmad so ,one can halt there and check aurangabad too.
thats it about my trip ,will rerturn with more
From hyderabad i had gone SHIRDI as you all where the body of SAI BABA is laid to R.I.P. It was nice place to be in,but it was crowded. EVen though i'm atheist this place appealed to me. it was good, but very crowded.
you cant reach shirdi by train directly, you need to take a train from secunderabad to manmad or get down at nagarsol from there 70 and 40 kms. respectively.
while travelling in that line u can see amazing mountains and dry land. you pass through aurangabad while travelling to manmad so ,one can halt there and check aurangabad too.
thats it about my trip ,will rerturn with more
