Where can I find locomotives that have been exported from India by IR?

20-06-2019

There are several locomotives that have been manufactured specifically for other countries, or rebuilt and then exported, sold/resold, or otherwise given to other national railways by Indian Railways, such as the many YDM-4's sold to Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar, Togo, etc. Many of these are in active use on those railways. However, it is often hard to get accurate information on locomotive numbers and their current disposition. Mick Pope posted the following to the IRFCA mailing list in July 2008: The Summer 2008 edition of the Continental Railway Journal contains the following news reports of exported YDM-4 and other stock which may be of interest to IRFCA members. Mali - noted

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What is a ‘block hut’ or ‘block post’?
July 16, 2019

A block hut or block post is a minor station (usually Class C; see section on stations) on a section with light traffic, which does not have the full complement of home and starter signals to control the reception and departure of trains. It often has just a single stop signal, and a permissive signal (a distant) to its rear. Line Clear is not

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What do the terms ‘block station’, and ‘halt station’ mean?
July 16, 2019

A block station is a station (along with its signalbox) associated with one end of a block section. Each block section has a block station at either end; the block stations control access to the block in either direction. A halt station is a station that is not associated with the end of a block section and has no associated signalboxes and no

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What is an Intermediate Block Section?
July 16, 2019

Intermediate Block Sections are provided to increase track usage in areas with absolute block operations where the distances between successive stations are large, causing each block to be very long. The heart of the absolute block system is the idea of only permitting one train ever to be on a block at any time; however, if the block is very

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Q. WHAT ARE SINGLE LINE BLOCK, TWIN SINGLE LINE BLOCK, ETC.?
July 16, 2019

A single line block system has just one track, which may be used for traffic in both directions. Signals are provided for both directions, and the token exchange or other system of interlocking works for traffic going either way. The basic principle is to restrict access to a block of track to a single train at a time, whether going in the up or

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What is the bell code used to communicate between signal cabins for block working?
July 16, 2019

IR's bell code has some points of correspondence with systems used in the UK in the early part of the 20th century. The system of bell codes to convey messages from one signalbox to another is given below. An 'X' indicates a short strike on the bell, and a dash indicates a pause. Bell Codes Message Code Attention X Line Clear

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What happens if lots of trains go in one direction in a section that uses physical tokens, and one station then runs out of tokens?
July 16, 2019

As may be deduced from the description of token block systems above, there is a problem if the traffic is not symmetric in both directions between the two stations at the ends of a block section. Eventually, one of the stations will run out of tokens to dispense to trains. This condition is known, not surprisingly, as a token exhausted condition,

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