India: BharatStream

JohnM1945 · Post by **JohnM1945** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:57 am

There are the beginnings (?) of an Indian TS20xx community on the BharatStream website (see what's available at https://www.bharatstream.com/irloco.php), run by Vishva Jeet.

There's just one - Indian gauge - route, described as the "Northern Railway". The current version runs eastwards from Ludhiana to Ambala Junction and then turns north to Chandigarh. Those who follow Michael Portillo's peregrinations will recall that this is the central section of his journey from Amritsar to Shimla in Episode 1 of his Indian series.

Unsurprisingly, the products available are less sophisticated than those currently available in the Rail Simulator heartlands but IMHO this is an initiative well worth supporting. The payment system, using Paypal, is unusual (think Britkits) but has worked flawlessly for me. The prices are miniscule.

John M

IronBidder · Post by **IronBidder** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:18 pm

Isn't Indian gauge 5 ft 6 in? They also have a lot of metre gauge railway, I believe.

Good luck to the community over there. With India's long history of railways and enormous network it deserves to have a decent range of models.

DigitalRails · Post by **DigitalRails** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:14 pm

In India we have -
A. Broad Gauge as 1676mm as major gauge.
B. Meter Gauge had been converted to Broad Gauge after the advent of Project Unigauge circa 1990s.
C. Narrow Gauge as a part of heritage trains, present in Shimla, Darjeeling and Nilgiri Mountain Railways.
Note - Many Meter Gauge lines are still running in India but they are on the countryside and on the verge of conversion to Broad Gauge.

JohnM1945 · Post by **JohnM1945** » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:50 pm

Ironbidder asked

Isn't Indian gauge 5 ft 6 in?

It is indeed (as qualified by DigitalRails) - and that's what the Bharatstream addons exemplify.

John M

DigitalRails · Post by **DigitalRails** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 8:39 am

There is another one - http://www.facebook.com/aktrains

JohnM1945 · Post by **JohnM1945** » Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:36 pm

Thanks for that, DigitalRails!

I shall explore...

John M

DigitalRails · Post by **DigitalRails** » Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:48 pm

And here is one of my unreleased assets -
Meter Gauge YDM4 Lumding with a load of Cement Rake.

YDM4 Lumding was scrapped after decades of service from Indian Railways in 2010.

749006 · Post by **749006** » Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:25 pm

Nice looking track on the Bharat Stream website
https://www.bharatstream.com/irloco_ec. ... oduct&id=1

Peter

JohnM1945 · Post by **JohnM1945** » Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:06 pm

Digital Rails mentioned:-

http://www.facebook.com/aktrains

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Looks very interesting. Sadly, the aktrains website is down at the moment but I gather that aktrains is focussing on the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) zone, modelling the broad gauge line from Guwahati to Hojai, a distance of 135 km.

John M

august1929 · Post by **august1929** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:12 am

DigitalRails wrote:And here is one of my unreleased assets -
Meter Gauge YDM4 Lumding with a load of Cement Rake.

YDM4 Lumding was scrapped after decades of service from Indian Railways in 2010.

Love the weathering and detail - good work

Rod

DigitalRails · Post by **DigitalRails** » Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:18 am

JohnM1945 wrote:The AKTrains website is down at the moment

Yes, they are updating the payment options for Indian users.

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