The mission was to catch some working steam in action on the branch lines west of Ahmedabad. I had been down to Wankaner twice before in 91' and 92' but never with a camera and never with the purpose of shooting steam. We arrived there on a Saturday morning by the Saurashtra Mail from Bombay and left on Sunday evening by the same train. Here are a collection of a few of my snaps taken during that weekend. The map above shows the area around Wankaner and the branch line network there.
Yellow dots mark the junction stations and the flat lines mark the terminii.
The Morbi-Ghantila section which is now redundant was once a feeder Narrow Gauge line to the Wankaner MG branch and shut down in the early eighties. The Dahinsara-Navlakhi branch is purely a salt carrying line. WKR was home to about 40 steam locos in its heyday and today is left with a mere 10-12 live steamers. YP 2211 and YG 3430 out of the shed area as evening sets in on WKR shed. YG 3437 awaits the station bell at Morbi Junction station with the early afternoon return service to Wankaner.