Guest From North: Jhansi WAG7 Pays A Visit To SER

Jhansi WAG7 comes in | © Soumo's Railways

Recently we had a rare guest from the North Central Region of the country. JHS-Jhansi WAG7 locomotive (no. 27565) made a surprise visit to our SHM Shalimar railway station yard of the 'South Eastern Railway' zone with a freight train.

This video was made/ taken near the PDPK Padmapukur Railway Station as the train moved slowly to the Shalimar railway station yard..

Shalimar yard gets a lot of incoming freight trains, it is a delight to see these locos coming in from all over the country to my home station. It was such a great pleasure to welcome this guest from Jhansi. This is the first time a loco from Jhansi loco shed came in.

While I was in Gwalior last November, my train passed through the Jhansi Junction Railway station. 

The railway station was built by the British in the late 1880s. After a long survey of three places the current site was selected for the station. The station has a massive fort-like building painted in maroon and off white. It is one of the largest and busiest railway stations in the Indian Railway network. The first Shatabdi Express of India started between New Delhi and Jhansi.

Porters at JHS, taken last Nov | © Soumo's Railways

Earlier Jhansi used to be a part of Central railways zone headquartered at Mumbai but now comes under North Central Railway Zone headquartered at Allahabad. The First Station director of Jhansi Station is Girish Kanchan. (Inputs from Wikipedia, See the page here).

On the right you can find a pic I clicked of three smiling porters at the Jhansi Station platform from my train window. This is one of my favourite pictures which I thought of sharing here. The Gwalior and North India trip was a memorable one, pity that I had to abandon the same mid-way due to my bad health.

Watch the video of the Jhansi WAG7 bringing in the freight train here:

JHS WAG& brings in a freight train | © Soumo's Railways

Here is the RF Data (for the current observation):

Date: January 19 2018

Place: Outskirts of SHM-Shalimar Railway station (Near PDPK Padmapukur).

Zone (Spotting location): SER - South Eastern Railway

Loco: JHS Jhansi WAG7 (no. 27565)

Loco Zone: NCR - North Central Railway

Train: Freight train to SHM Shalimar yard, SER.

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