🙏🏻NAMAMI BRAHMAPUTRA🙏🏻

The Kamakhya bound 15657 Brahmaputra Mail emerging out of the Naranarayan Setu over the mighty Brahmaputra river powered by Siliguri (SGUJ) WDG 4 # 12370.

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New Bongaigaon - Goalpara Town - Kamakhya instead of its regular route, New Bongaigaon - Rangiya - Kamakhya.

The train in the opposite direction is 05804 Guwahati - New Bongaigaon Passenger powered by New Guwahati (NGC) WDG 4D # 70785

Location: Pancharatna, Assam.

The mid recessed beauty from Howrah (HWH) in ICF Shatabdi livery, WAP 4 # 22530 undergoing final round of inspection & maintenance before dispatch for mainline service. Here is a list of few pointers about the design:

1. The proportion of cream and blue in the Shatabdi livery is similar to the second version of 22005 'JAWAHAR' when it was reclassified as WAP-3 & repainted by Ghaziabad.
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2. The cream stripes near the upper boundary terminating before the thunderbolts on either face and it's continuation near the lower edge on the side profile has been referred from the 1st version of Shatabdi livery on WAP-1 which was implemented on 22005 'JAWAHAR'. Back then, it was in its original classification WAP-1 FM-II, where FM-II was the classification of the bogies.

3. The road number stencils on either face have been kept in the centre similar to that of 22519 which was painted in ICF Rajdhani livery earlier.

4. A touch of nostalgia ! The side stencils depicting the loco class have been reintroduced under the cab windows just like the early days of WAP-1 & WAM -4. The road number & loco class were written in a single box under the cab window. However, the box was not used for certain reasons in this case. (few WAM-4 holding sheds continued with this style even in 2010-2011. ELS Tatanagar was one such example)

5. The side stencils of the road number are accompanied by one layer of extra stripes similar to older designs on conventional locos, still seen on many WAG 5 units.

6. The manufacturer's plates have been highlighted.