Palur is now official stoppage for Chennai local trains. And Rail Neer Factory for Southern Railway is located in Palur Pondicherry Express running And additional a MEMU Exp is running
Wow!!! I found it. Had seen this first in 2008. Binoy if you are still active, please try doing another upload. You didn’t screw up buddy. It’s an amazing rendition!
What happened to the scores of people employed by steam loco sheds across India? I have vivid memories of men who used to ride their bicycles past our railway house daily. They were all employed at the loco shed or railway workshops that were geared for steam. A huge number were employed for cleaning and others supplemented their incomes by collecting coal!
Soon, decades later, the diesel and electrics that directly replaced steam would suffer a similar fate, I’m just glad some old diesels and electrics are preserved and cared for!
Would’ve been cool if at least one of these locomotives from the contest got to see preservation, but it seems that none of their classes are extinct! (I could be wrong tho)
I used to watch this video 14 years back and just played it again today. You should upload the song with a better video and redoing the magic you did 16 years back. Do you have any recent videos of yours or you not doing it anymore ??
Hello this is Binoy vudayagiri, the original uploader - I am commenting from another channel I own. To answer your question, I moved to the usa a few short months after uploading this video and life changed quickly. I stopped uploading for many years. I recently started this channel (nomaddict) .. I will take your suggestion seriously and do this song again with much higher quality.
I am currently at Pondicherry now, and have arrived by train. The Palur station is now back in operation, with like 35 trains halting there daily. The Pondicherry Special is now up and running as an electric train. But it lacks the charm it had in the olden days!😢 Nowadays, it is converted to Broad Gauge and electrified, but is still single tracked.