The train bearing our guests was late
and while I waited for it to arrive
I took some photos '
An air conditioned coach.
This is a non ordinary non-AC coach. The ticket for this ordinary class is very cheap. But it can be very crowded and uncomfortable in there.
Father and son standing at the door.Their train was moving on.
A food kiosk where you can buy, tea, coffee, snacks and packaged meals. Usually people carry their own food on trains but on long journeys its convinient to buy packed meals and fresh fruit being sold on the railway platforms.
The ralway platforms have book shops where you can buy newspapers, magazines all kinds of books in Hindi and English or your state language.
Parcels waiting to be loaded on the train.
This is the inside of a ordinary second class coach. Its a rough way to travel, but its cheap too.
In my student and younger days I used to travel by second cless, but don 't have the stamina or grit to do that any more. I prefer air condition travel now.
Indian Railways is the world 's longest and the most largest and complicated train systems. Many books have been written about it. People come to Indian as train tourists. Its a good way to travel and you can see a lot of India from the train. There are some luxury tourist trains too where you are treated like a Maharajah.
I love the little toy trains which take you into the mountains.
Mailbags
A luggage porter
This little fellow is also helping.
Members of a village community encamped on the platform, waiting for their train.
The platforms are connected to each other through a footbridge, usually in a junction, there there are many platforms and a lot of rail traffic.
A lone engine on the move
Several transport or goods trains passed by.
This one is carrying coal and minerals from the mines.
And finally this is the train which brought Ash and Megan to us.
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