File:Great Indian Peninsula Railway - Climbing the Ghaut Inclines.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,526 × 1,671 pixels, file size: 1.63 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Original capture: "This month's supplement is a photograph of a heavy goods train on the Thull Ghaut incline near Kasara, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway's main line to Calcutta from Bombay via Jubbulpore.

The train shown represents a load of 1,450 tons being hauled by a 2-10-0 four-cylinder oil burning locomotive assisted by an eight-coupled Ghaut tank locomotive (Y3 type) in the centre of the train, and another engine of the same class at the rear.

At the point where the photograph was taken, the track has a new alignment which does away with the reversing station, which formerly considerably delayed the traffic.

A portion of the old line can be seen on the hillside, behind the train. The grade on the Ghat incline is 1 in 37 for about 41 miles. The train has the automatic vacuum brake operating throughout.

It will be remembered that thirty miles out of Bombay, the main line of the G.I.P. Ry. divides at Kalyan Junction. The more northerly line for Jubbulpore climbs the Thull Ghaut incline, while the Bhore Ghaut pass to the south for Poona, Madras, etc. has an equally severe gradient nearly twice as long as the Thull. Once over the Ghauts both lines run for hundreds of miles across sandy plains.

Uploader's note:

The capture contains an error. The statement A portion of the old line can be seen on the hillside, behind the train. is wrong. The track visible in the background is a so called catch siding to be used by runaway trains in case of an emergency. The picture has been taken at Block & Catch Siding Cabin 3.
Date
Source The Locomotive Magazine, July 15, 1924
Author
  • Original: Unknown authorUnknown author
  • Cropped version: Pechristener
Camera location19° 40′ 51.79″ N, 73° 29′ 35.7″ E  Heading=225° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired.

The Indian Copyright Act applies in India to works first published in India. According to the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, as amended up to Act No. 27 of 2012 (Chapter V, Section 25):

  • Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (i.e. as of 2024, works published prior to 1 January 1964 are considered public domain).
  • Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year.
  • Any kind of work other than the above enters the public domain 60 years after the author's death (or in the case of a multi-author work, the death of the last surviving author), counted from the beginning of the following calendar year.
  • Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright.
The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 is not retroactive, so any work in which copyright did not subsist when it commenced did not have its copyright restored, and is in the public domain per the Copyright Act 1911.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 60 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, and Switzerland and the United States are 70 years.

العربيَّة | বাংলা | Deutsch | English | français | हिन्दी | italiano | 日本語 | ಕನ್ನಡ | македонски | മലയാളം | मराठी | Nederlands | português do Brasil | sicilianu | தமிழ் | ತುಳು | اردو | 繁體中文 | +/−

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.

Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:

  1. it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
  2. it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country on the URAA date (January 1, 1996 for most countries).
For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:33, 5 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:33, 5 January 20182,526 × 1,671 (1.63 MB)Pechristener (talk | contribs)cropped and b/w restored
18:32, 5 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 18:32, 5 January 20183,043 × 2,249 (1.86 MB)Pechristener (talk | contribs)=={{int:filedesc}}== {{Information |description={{en|1=Original capture: ''"This month's supplement is a photograph of a heavy goods train on the Thull Ghaut incline near Kasara, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway's main line to Calcutta from Bombay...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Great_Indian_Peninsula_Railway_-_Climbing_the_Ghaut_Inclines.jpg&oldid=529780693"