Rare Compilation of IR Trains in 1995, including Rajdhanis & Shatabdis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- This video is based on fillers in a couple of my VHS tapes. It is a compilation of 32 trains that I encountered during my various trips in July-August 1995. Be sure to enjoy high-speed crossings as well as arrivals and departures. A variety of locos in various liveries are featured here - WAM4, WDM2, Twin WDM2s, WCAM1, WCM1, WCM5, WDS4. The following trains are covered, among others:
- WCAM1-hauled Ahmedabad Shatabdi departing from Borivali 0:01
- WAP3-hauled Bhopal Shatabdi skipping Bina 1:21
- WAM4-hauled Jhelum Exp. at speed 1:42
- Taj Exp. in white-blue-red-stripes livery 2:03
- WAP3-hauled Bhopal Shatabdi near Mathura 2:10
- Karnavati Exp. rake at Ahmedabad in original cream-blue livery 2:21
- WDM2-hauled Bhopal-Rajkot Exp. at speed 2:48
- Double-headed Ahmedabad Shatabdi at 120 kmph 3:17
- August Kranti Rajdhani rake at Bombay Central coaching yard 3:24
- Double-headed August Kranti Rajdhani Exp. crossing Andheri 4:14
- Overtaking WCM2-hauled Chennai-Dadar Exp. 4:45
- WCM1-hauled Deccan Queen departing from Pune 5:21
- WCM5-hauled Deccan Queen arriving at Lonavala 6:31
- WDM2-hauled Saurashtra Mail departing from Jamnagar 7:22
- WDM2-hauled Kurla-Bangalore Exp. arriving at Guntakal 8:34
- WAP3-hauled Bhopal Shatabdi departing from Jhansi 9:11
- WAP1-hauled Kalinga Utkal Exp. at speed 10:40
- WAM4-hauled Bundelkhand Exp. 10:57
- WAM4-hauled Karnataka Exp. at speed (in cream-brown livery) 11:48
- WAP1-hauled Bombay Rajdhani at 130 kmph 12:02
- Parallel overtake by Jaipur-Bombay Superfast Exp. 12:24
- WAM4-hauled Dehradun-Bandra Exp. 13:40
- Overtaking WCAM1-hauled Saurashtra Janata Exp. 14:03
- WCAM1-hauled Ahmedabad Shatabdi at speed 14:51
In the video, there are three instances of a Rajdhani crossing a Shatabdi. See if you can identify those.
With people having smartphones and dslr's nowadays with less technology and equipments you got treasures for our generation. Stay blessed Sir
Thanks a lot!
Yes really
Us jamane mobail zada improve nahi huye the
Its nice nice to see shatabdis and rajadhanis burning the tracks . Now wrapped in memories forever
@@vaishalideshpande5683 that too with chugging diseals... Diseal alcos will soon become extinct and get replaced by snobby silent electrics with no emotions and action. A true 80-90s railfan can only feel its depth.
THE FIRST RAILFAN OF INDIA - Mani Vijay sir....back in 1995..I was just 1 year old...
Thanks!
I would be born 11 years later this video was recorded.
I was -10 years old.
The one who captured these was a rich gentleman, because it was very expensive that time😋
Hats off to you sir for showing short part of history
The only reason I could afford a camcorder is because I was working in US (still am).
@@ManiVijay were cameras really rare in india at that time? But I'm so lucky I could watch this.. Back in those days I remember 2003 trains were of great quality and punctual compared to now... The government have ruined everything but as responsible commuters we have to take good care of our public transport
@@ManiVijay you recorded all these trains video? Which camcorder you were using at that time? What differences you feel between indian railways and american railway?
@@hopegood5866 Americans find it Godlike to travel in their trains... Because trains are super rare in US.
I am so grateful that you recorded this during a time when this was not even thought of by most! Such a treasure. Thank you Mani Vijay, from all of us!
Thanks for your feedback.
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This is an absolute gem sir!!! Thanks for capturing these beautiful moments!! The locos look gorgeous too!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's so great to see that you were rail fanning in 1995 which people are doing now even though there was not so much advancement in technology during that time.
Fortunately, I had a Sony camcorder with me (which I had purchased in US, since I was already working by that time).
This video deserves to be kept in a museum
Thanks for the treasure you created!
5:27 I never saw these kinds of engines with my own eyes as I was born in 2004. They are beautiful, I must say.
12:06 you were very privileged to travel in a loco ☺
Thank you very much! 12:06 - I was fortunate to be able to travel in the WAP3 cab that was hauling the Bhopal Shatabdi.
Keeping these videos safe and secure for 25yrs is not easy. This shows ur commitment and dedication for IR. Thank you Mani Sir for reminding us our childhood days when we used to travel and enjoy train journeys specially in red coloured icf coaches.🙂
I was born in the year 94! I was very small but i remember travelling in those maroon coaches!
Little not small
Those Maroon colour was better than today's liveries!!🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
You mean the ICF red coaches?
Wow. Nostalgic video. It took me to life in 90s. Being a train lover I vividly remember those maroon coloured train coaches of 90s. But I the cleanliness and hygiene of today's trains are better than that of old time trains. Trains have become less prone to accidents now a days due to advancement in Technology.
just wow ...india has came long way in developing technology....love trains
Feeling nostalgic... Thanks Mr Mani.. Again you have showcases the golden days of my childhood.. Those days...........
Thanks! Those were definitely the good old days.
Vintage classics, splendid captures, thanks a ton for preserving those beautiful liveries and sharing with us.
01:24 this horn is evergreen
I agree!
@PURE INDIAN SAYS Whatever happened to all those classic horns?!
Also 2:48 classic alco horn😌😍
@@ManiVijay Sir, I hope you answer this... Is that an older version of WAP-4 Or is it a different engine altogether?
That loco, at 2:48 used in The burning train 1980s film
This alco is of Ratlam shed
True!
No; I guess it was of Tkd loco shed..Correct me if Im wrong..
Seems like the trains of olden days were having good speed than it is today.
They did. And much better maintenance as well.
That's probably because of less population and demand.
Bro because of less stops.....
WoW!!!!! This is it.......
Actually you it in relative motion..
Remebering those days... Gem of our time. It is invaluable to me as my dad was a railway offical took us to extensive travel throughout the country by good'ol trains..
Thanks! It must have been great to have your Dad in the railways. You must have traveled all over the country. Is he retired now?
@@ManiVijay oh yes he is now a pensioner and a proud erstwhile employèe of IR..
Wow what a great compilation.. Thanks a ton for the upload sir !! i am in love with the livery of WCAM1 @14:51 .. this makes me sad as these days u have to bear with the routine liveries of WAP-4/7 , WDP4's. i wish IR gets back to the good old days where Sheds could have their own livery :)
Thanks! I, too, miss those old liveries!
BTW theses are beautiful but todays Locomotive are even better. I suggest enjoy these loco of today as you may not find them In future.
The Maroon liveries of Alcos should also be back🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🌵🌴!!!!!
It should come back to its old position again,,,indeed!!
During late 1990s and early 2000s, apart from Rajdhanis and Shatabdis, I saw Rajdhani liveried WAP 1 loco only in Superfast trains like Jnaneshwari Superdelux and then in Swaraaj, whereas I saw Shatabdi liveried WCAM 2/2P/3 loco only in Superfast trains like Karnavati Superfast and then in Deccan Queen.
Other mail/express trains used to get WAM4 or WCAM1 locos and WDM locos according to electrified or unelectrified section.
Few passenger trains of very short distance used to
get the WDS4 shunting loco as those trains routes were very small and unelectrified, those trains mainly operated in branch lines connecting the rural and remote areas having unelectrified route with very short distances like Anand Khambhat and Anand Vadtal.
God of Indian Railfanning.......
Just a regular crazy railfan :-)
Mani Vijay Sir, probably you're the first who captured so many footages of Indian trains
He did record them at that time and he retained the collection.. that's a real RailFan
Grand Dad atleast if not god
He's indeed a pioneer.
I expected this compilation from you. Very nice. It's pleasure to see our grandfathers at their young age.
Thanks a lot!
WCAM-1 hauling a Shatabdi.. my childhood dream come true! But never saw that loco hauling a Rajdhani.. awesome compilation 😍
Remembering my childhood 23 years ago ❤❤❤🔥🔥😍😍
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Priceless... Wo station pe "Chai chai chai".... The era of WAM4 and WAP 1...
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I remember when i was a child in 90s I used to wait for summer holidays to travel on trains. We feel the connect with the Indian railways which the kids today do not have including my son. He has travelled in train just for a joyride once from Bangalore to Mysore in a Shatabdi. Thank you for posting this eautiful video just brought back my old memories.
Bro today's kid will never understand the level of joy and excitement in travelling in indian railways,
No matter how many times you watch, you go mad each time. My trips in August Kranti Rajdhani, Ahmedabad Shatabdi, A/c chair car to Baroda by Jhelum Express from Mumbai and surprisingly cc in Rajdhani Express from Mumbai to NewDelhi before August Kranti came are all now recorded by your videos. As every rail fan says in India, Mani Vijay Sir, you have removed the guilt in minds of 1000’s who didn’t record their travels not realising those days would never come. Thanks a million and may God Bless you.
Jhelum Express bought tears in my eyes,.. My father was posted in Jammu and Kashmir... Every time we go to our native by that train back in 1996..thanks for true historical catches
What an amazing video this is...
Muddy brown livery ❤
Icf rajdhani and above all Bombay rajs with diesel twins.
This compilation is amazing!!
Thank you for uploading this...
Glad you enjoyed it.
This is an absolute gem ... Golden days of Indian Railways all in one place.... I was born in the 90s , witnessed this glory as a child & today in 2018 seeing this again all in one place, I couldn't have asked for more, brought back lot of memories ....Thank you for capturing & sharing these gems with us ... Golden Nostalgia !!! 💛💛💛
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback!
Mesmerising sound of the loco chugging, some never seen pantograph and traction loco. Great collection.
During my childhood I traveled a lot in Bundelkhand express.watching your video has refreshed those memories.
Thanks! Between what stations did you travel in Bundelkhand?
Thankyou for transporting us back 25 years nostalgically.
Tysm Sir for keeping alive the memories. WCM Deccan Queen. Croc faced hauler😊. All time fav locomotive
Wao realy beautiful collection wo 90s ke train journy yaad aa gai bachpan ke din superb video thanks for uploading
Thanks!
Those days AC travel was a real luxury. I still remember in 1992, I was only 5 and we were to travel from Jabalpur to Howrah in then Bombay mail. I was nagging my dad to get AC seats but obviously it was beyond his budget. When he came home with the cardboard tickets of sleeper class(yes even for long distance also they used to give small cardboard tickets) I had burst into tears and snatched one of the tickets from him and tore it apart. Golden days to remember... Rail fan since birth!!
Thanks for sharing your story. Yes, AC travel was expensive since it was only 1AC and 2AC in long distance trains. 3AC only came after 1993 and that too, only in Rajdhanis first.
My dearest father operated Jaipur Bombay super fast on this time 1995 salute this video.
Which locomotiv he operated?
I literally have tears💧
This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen for Indian Railways. Amazing video and God bless you.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for uploading the superb video trains and stations were less crowded
Thanks! Yes, one can definitely make out the difference in crowds.
It looks like you had most expensive camera, quality is so amazing !!
Yes
Doing great service by archiving the railway footage of earlier years , thanks a lot
Very glad you enjoyed it.
✊I feel proud that even at that time I have captured some old memories of the trains that are present today. ❤
This is a gem for all rail lovers.. thank you Sir!
You are most welcome!
So nostalgic to see 90s times again its like reliving in past with alcos and WAM4, WCAM3, WAP1 Those places without poles is so dope ❤
This reminds us of our childhood. Thanks to you sir!
Very glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you...95..I turned 18...seems eons now...though it was just yesterday!Had forgotten how things looked like when I had the best time of my TRAIN-TRAVELLING life!
You are most welcome!
Thank you so much for sharing golden era videos with us ❤
Very glad you enjoyed them.
This is pure gold....must be preseved and given special status...
Hats off sir
Thanks a lot!
Thank you Sir for the Videos , Deccan Queen express I used to admire the train during my school days , really happy to see those old locomotives
Very glad you enjoyed!
So much nostalgia sir😢😢missing those days so much and mani vijay sir a big thanks to you for showing the treasures of our country 😍😍
Hello Sir, I love the old trains and locomotives you captured I was not born at that time, but after seeing your videos I love the old days video, Thanks sir for such great captures.
Very glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks
Dude, I was not even born back then!! such a goldmine of a footage
Thanks for refreshing old memories. Keep on this marvelous work.
Glad you enjoyed it. Will post more one-by-one.
Liking this video to remember these trains. Its unfortunate that I was born in 2000s and never got to experience these beauties... But from these videos... I can strangely feel nostalgic..
Once again you come with one of the fantastic video from your treasure collection of IR n hope many more videos are in the row .....keep uploading Mani sir 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks a lot!
This guy deserves a nobel! 👍
Thank yoy,For taking us back in the history one of the best,bestest documentry on railways ever.
I always dream of dream of travelling in a locomotive. You did it back in 1995. Kudos!
I was able to do it thanks to my uncle who was in the Railway Board back then.
Feels good to live those golden ICF train era.Best video
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You are an inspiration for Rail Fans like me Mani Sir, thanks for sharing the treasures of Indian Railways.
Very glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Video
XD
Sir you are father of Railfans presented a precious gift of that trains which operate 130 kms in olden days Mumbai Rajdhani Exp was running with RTM WDM2 twins now a days it is running with GZB wap 7 We really miss the class horns and evergreen chugging of WDM2 Locos
This train are still running , thanks bro for uploading best video ever
Wonderful !! Thanks for uploading. I wasn't even born when these videos were shot..
Glad you enjoyed it.
Mani Vijay sirji you are really my Legendary hero and The great railfan of Indian railway sir ji 🙏 🙌.
I really appreciate and gives great tribute 🙏 ❤️ 💙 to you 🙏 ❤️ sirji 🌹🌹👏👏🌹🌹
Thank you so much sir for uploading such videos.
The best railfan's award goes to Mani Vijay.....Hatsoff to you brother👍
Those RTM WDM2 twins hauling the Rajdhanis back then had a beautiful and unique livery! They are the only reason as to why I like watching ' The Burning Train ' again and again! (Although, in the film, they have only showcased one RTM WDM2 with an ICF Rajdhani rake going at an unrealistic speed of 100 miles/hour i.e 160 km/h!)
Same here! I love The Burning Train movie just to watch the Rajdhani in action. And I also wish they had shot the movie when twin-WDM2s were being used. Then we could have seen the awesomeness of twin-WDM2s hauling the Rajdhani at great speed.
Mani Vijay
Yeah! It would have been a dream come true. I wish I were born earlier to see them in action! I feel that IR should start a weekly heritage special with twin WDM2 locos (in the same old livery) hauling pure Rajdhani liveried ICF coaches (with upgraded plush interiors), if possible, from Mumbai Central to New Delhi.
I also like that movie of vinod i love indian railways
Around the time the burning train was made ( early 80s ) , the Bombay Rajdhani did indeed have only 7-8 coaches hauled by a single Ratlam WDM-2. I was doing my engineering back in those days at REC ( NIT today ) Surat and remember seeing this train skip Surat , hauled by a solitary WDM-2. Twin WDM-2s came later in the latter half of the 80s when the number of coaches were doubled. So what they showed in the movie was the real deal .. for those times.
I am sure it would have been awesome just to see the Rajdhani skip Surat. I remember seeing the 9-coach Rajdhani passing through Dadar and felt so thrilled. And my first journey on the Rajdhani happened in 1983 after it got double-headed. Those were the days when traveling in a Rajdhani meant royal treatment and you felt special. I can recall stopping at Surat outer but we went through the station slowly.
Thxxxxx mani ji. Aisa lagta h punarjanm ho gaya..
Great video,and thanks for the upload...in those days express trains have only one or two ac coaches...
Thanks for watching! Back then non-AC First Class was still around, so comparatively lesser number of AC coaches.
Marvelous!!!
In my childhood I always thought that when I can travel with that old type Rajdhani and Shatabdi. Yes now dream comes True, but with LHB coaches. Without that type of old days ICF coaches still my dream was incomplete, but suddenly after seeing your videos now I think my dream complete. Because in your video that old days essence is available with rain droplets in train window. Really you are a big rail fan... who have captured the old days memories in his video camera with different categories train at different locations....stay Blessed....
Lovely Sir… you are one of the originals
sir you are an idol for young railfans like us...thanks for an awesome upload
Thanks a lot!
Superb, i really felt pride about 1995 IR, fully infrastructure by that time of speeds and conditions , fully electrified lines, all electric locomotives , premium trains , neatly maintained trains, I didn't saw any single loco as Diesel really really fantastic, today sadly we have just in 15 months having 75 train accidents with no proper infrastructure with no proper signal traffic network. And my grand father who worked as Ticket collector (joined)1950- 1987(retired) died in 2001.
This is absolutely majestic.Kudos to you sir.
Thanks a lot!
Wow amazing video sir n what a speed show by Jhelum n by Karnataka express
Thanks! And those trains were hauled by WAM4s :-)
that time when we didn't had dp4 , ap5 & 7 , amazing upload
We had all those old beautiful locos.
Tab to mai 1 saal ka tha sirf awsum unexpected video..
Thanks!
Thank you Sir, these are treasures, that aren't seen in the museums too these days!
WDM2 is a precious gem . Kohinoor of IR. And this was the era when ICF was the king
I agree, nothing like ALCOs.
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The Gr8 90s...🙏.. Hats off to you sir.. It was not easy those days..
Sir you Literally take us back us to 1995
Indeed - that's the beauty of videos!
Thankyou for showing us the golden era to todays generation
Look at the size of the compartments, it's double size of current trains.
Can never get enough of seeing this nostalgic masterpiece
horn is awsome and that time i was goa. really awsomes collection. i also back 1995missing days
Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing these videos. You are awesome.
❤❤❤stay blessedSir apne childhood yaad kar diye😢
Mani vijay sir be looking to rail vloggers today be like :- Kid's these days 😂😎
Amazing yaar 1995 old era
Thanks!
90's... our childhood !! those were awesome days....
I agree, good old days!
I really have awesome memories of trains in 1990s and early 2000s.
Jnaneshwari Superdelux having Rajdhani liveried coaches along with matching liveried SRC WAP 1 loco and Karnavati Superfast having Shatabdi liveried coaches along with matching liveried WCAM 2/2P loco were the memories I'm having till date during late 1990s and early 2000s. These were the best memories of trains.
Also many memories of mail/express trains with maroon liveried coaches along with having matching liveried WAM4 loco in many places and the mail/express trains of western railway having maroon liveried coaches along with few cream-brown liveried coaches and red-Cream WCAM 1 loco with blue lines in Mumbai-Ahmedabad section are still memorable.
Lovely - vintage stuff - thanks dear
This is what you called blogging father..
Thanks 🙏.
Remembering my childhood, thanks so much for sharing sir.
Glad you loved it.
Just Wow! Who ever thought of watching it freely on such platform at that time. I know my father used to take reels to the shop to get prints of Pictures taken on NIKON camera at home.
This is nostalgic.
Thanks a lot!
Lovely vintage collection. The deccan queen capture was fabulous. I still remember those WCM locos on the BBVT Pune route.
And I remember the non-airconditioned first class bogies, what ee call FC today. Sadly these FC bogies have disappeared. I enjoyed traveling in FC. hope IR will reintroduce them again. thanks sir. Nostalgic of those lovely days
I m glad to see that video 1 year before my birth , and surprised too, at that time there were also electrifying route in India....
Sir this is awesome video I felt very much lost while viewing this video of those old coloured train cotch this is just a trusure for me
Sir you and your are truly LEGEND thanks for sharing golden era
Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow great memories!! Thanks! 👍
Glad you enjoyed.
This is Gold💛