And finally the day comes when diesels will compete with Electric locos in terms of raw aggression and speed..Diesel Railfans all over India will ultimately see their lovable diesel locomotive blasting at 120+ km/hr and this has been possible due to India's very own EMD locomotive WDP4.The video shows how the madlyhonking, ruthless EMD aka WDP4 20085 blasted like a boosted monster and tearing apart Chandanpur station showing that he is the actual "DIESEL KING" with the Shan-e NFR 12042 NJP-HWH Shatabdi express.The RDSO testing for this train was done with WDP4D but due to some technical fault of this very loco it was not permitted to run at 120+ kmph whereas wdp4 which has a clearence to run at 160kmph was ultimately given the HONOUR. Video:... more...
when will speed increase in RMPH-NFK section....this is the section where the speed of every NBengal and North East trains remains extremely slow.....any upgradation work going on...........?please update!
Southern Railway: தண்டவாள பராமரிப்பு பணிகள் காரணமாக ரயில் சேவை செப்டம்பர் 18 முதல் அக்டோபர் 8 வரை மாற்றம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. சில ரயில்கள் பகுதியாக ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. மற்ற ரயில்கள் மாற்றுப் பாதையில் இயக்கப்படும். ...
TIRUCHY: A few coaches of the Rameswaram-Chennai Sethu Superfast Express that left Tiruchy railway junction during the wee hours on Wednesday got disconnected mid-journey. No casualty was reported in the freak incident. ...
In response to past confusions with Train/Station updates and resulting fights and controversies, the following clear and objective guidelines are being issued, with no room for any arguments or debates about validity. Also, included, some other changes with respect to Ratings.
1. All Red Ratings will require further explanation. Red Ratings won't...
As announced previously, there are a few changes coming to IRI user accounts, based on past practices.
1. As before, you will be able to quickly DELETE your IRI User account at ANY time. However, the menu option for this was hidden in the profile page, and could not easily be located....
A new feature will be released soon, whereby you can follow blogs tagged with specific Trains & Stations. If you have already posted blogs tagged with some Train/Station, then you will be set to automatically follow that Train/Station. Thereafter, any future news/blogs tagged with those Trains/Stations will be marked to your...
These days, every other day, we are getting requests from members to allow email login to their FB-based IRI account. 10 years ago, we had given the option for users to login through FaceBook - in retrospect, this was a mistake. These days, apparently, users are quitting FaceBook in droves because...
Followup to: Fmt Changes
The new version of FmT 2.0 will soon be here - in about 2 weeks. As detailed in the previous announcement, many of the old FmT features like Train TT, Speedometer, Geo Location, etc. will be REMOVED. It will be a bare-bones simple app, focused on trip blogging.
It...
There are some changes coming to FMT. Many of the features of FMT, like station arrival, TT, speed, geo, passing times, station time, etc. are ALREADY available in OTHER railway apps. So all of these features will be REMOVED.
We'll have ONLY BLOGGING - quick upload of pics/videos/audio, etc. You may attach...
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