For RailFans, Platform Announcements are more musical than Bollywood songs. - Prince Maan

Nagpur, being one of the old major junctions of India, offers a curious blend of the old and the new.

The building is a magnificent sandstone edifice that evokes Jodhpur coupled with the distinctive architecture of the British Raj. It also has pedestrian overbridges made of cement, as opposed to the metal skeletons that perch over most newer stations.

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being an old station, it has an odd notion of what a parking line is supposed to achieve. You see, the line adjacent to the first platform merges with the line on platform 1, while it is still on platform 1. So when a goods train, like this BOXNM1 rake loaded with coal and headed by the LDH WAG-7 #24596 (BHEL manufactured, no less) gets sidelined in preference for other trains bound for Delhi or Howrah, it has the unfortunate side effect of fouling platform 1, which sort of defeats the purpose.

It's quite possible that the extended, curved part of platform 1 was a relatively more recent (past 20 years or so?) addition when trains started growing longer.

Bonus pic: a large, cable-supported road flyover overlooking the station.