RailFanning is a gift you give yourself. - Varun

RAILFANNING WITHOUT SEEING A SINGLE TRAIN
PART -1
28/12/2015.. Me and mr. Himanshu /blog/user/51440 were discussing about GC of the historical Satpura Railways. All of sudden Himanshu Bhaiya said "Chal Line dekh ke aate hain. Remove kar rahe hain aajkal." ( Lets go to see the line. Its being dismentaled now a days) . Now that was something new to me. It brought MIXED EMOTIONS to me as " PROMOTING TO MORE PAYING but UNINTRESTING JOB" . I said lets go. Without any delay he took his car keys. And we headed...
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towards nainpur(NIR). As we left our hometown railway lines were visible beside us. We were driving on SH-11 and the whole MFR NIR section is beside this road. 4km after bamhni banjar (BIV) we saw some man sliding the rails beside ballast. Meanwhile a tractor trolly loaded with iron sleepers and fasteners crossed us. After moving another 1 km we met our first rail road crossing. We parked car a side, came to crossing looked left, then right and I was like " THE LINE ON WHICH I USED TO TRAVEL DAILY IS NO MORE, RIP."
One minute, I stood on a rail specially laid for crossing. Yes it was still there. I took my phone to capture it but phone hung and camera did not respond. Finally we got back to car to discover the progress of Gauge Conversion further. we passed by SAKA PH , and within 5 mins or so we were outside of CID ( Chiraidongri). Not CID of ACP Pradhyumn and Ins. Daya, the nearest station to chnge for KANHA NATIONAL PARK. Here we spotted the line from which the work has been commensed. After CID there was line present. So it was decided to directly visit Nainpur Jn Centre point of satpura railways. After 15 min drive we were at the gate of NIR Jn.
End of part 1.